Last week, after reports had already circulated that millions of COVID-19 vaccines were lying around unused while Americans desperately waited to be vaccinated, Democratic governors Andrew Cuomo of New York and Gavin Newsom of California threatened providers with massive fines and/or losing their licenses if they dispensed the vaccines in any way differing from the hierarchy their states had laid out.
On December 23, Reuters reported, “Millions of COVID-19 vaccines are sitting unused in U.S. hospitals and elsewhere a week into the massive inoculation campaign, putting the government’s target for 20 million vaccinations this month in doubt. As of Wednesday morning, only 1 million shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine had been given, about one-third of the first shipment sent last week.”
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