America has wasted at least 15 million Covid vaccine doses since March, new data shows

NEW: America has wasted at least 15,000,000 Covid vaccine doses since March, according to government data obtained by NBCNews.

The United States has thrown away at least 15.1 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines since March 1, according to government data obtained by NBC News — a number that is far larger than previously known and is still likely an undercount.

The data released by the CDC is self-reported by pharmacies, states and other vaccine providers. It is not comprehensive — missing some states and federal providers — and it does not include the reason doses had to be thrown away. The number of discarded doses is still a small fraction of the total vaccines administered in the U.S.

"It's really tragic that we have a situation where vaccines are being wasted while lots of African countries have not had even 5 percent of their populations vaccinated,” said Sharifah Sekalala, an associate professor of global health law at England's University of Warwick, who studies inequalities in infectious diseases.

CDC spokeswoman Kristen Nordlund said in an email that the share of Covid vaccines wasted “remains extremely low, which is evidence of the strong partnership among the federal government, jurisdictions, and vaccine providers to get as many people vaccinated as possible while reducing vaccine wastage across the system.”

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