Wastage is bad obviously, but 3% is pretty good. I've heard it's at or below the wastage for similar drugs.

Worth noting that the big pharmacies do not, from casual eyeball, appear to be wasting out of proportion to the amount they administered. (The U.S. allocated more than half of all doses to the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program and big pharmacies are supermajority of that.)

Disclaimer: comment in personal capacity.

Where are the majority of vaccines produced ending up nowadays? Rich countries placed orders greater than they could possibly use, and now rates of take-up are slowing in those countries. Presumably vaccine is being produced as fast as ever to fulfil those orders. Is Covax actually getting the excess to the rest of the world?

Not that we (western hemisphere) are not wasting other things that rest of the planet's inhabitants can benefit from.

I'm not surprised Walgreens is at the top by wastage.

They have some of the most horrible bureaucracy when it came to vaccine administration. Appointment times meant nothing and it took close to 10min/patient to progress in the line.

For my 2nd dose, their system broke down entirely and rather than inform everyone in the line, they decided to run around like chickens with their heads cut off and then take a lunch break, keeping everyone wondering what's going on.

Yup. Manufacturers will need to move to single dose vials pretty soon. I was talking to pharmacists that reconstitute a 10 dose vial to vaccinate someone and have to toss the other 9 doses as they go bad.

11M wasted doses is frightening. That would vaccinate the entire population of New Zealand.