EU Countries Destroy €4 Billion Worth of COVID Vaccines
December 18th, 2023Via: Politico:
At least 215 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines purchased by EU countries at the height of the pandemic have since been thrown away at an estimated cost to the taxpayer of €4 billion, an analysis by POLITICO reveals. And that’s almost certainly an underestimate.
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It’s not easy to discover how many vaccines have been thrown out. Governments, including the EU’s second-most populous country France, are reluctant to reveal the scale of the waste.
POLITICO’s calculations are based on numbers from 19 European countries — 15 that supplied us with direct figures, and four where volumes were reported in local media. Some figures date from as recently as this month; the oldest come from December 2022.
The passage of time means the figures we received are conservative, with the real number of discarded vaccines likely much higher.
Vials full of Covid-19 vaccine are a biohazard.
215 million doses at 5 doses per vial (assuming the economy-size vials were used) is 43,000,000 vials. Where did they ‘throw away’ all that glass? Did they de-contaminate it first?
215 million doses at .3 ml each is 64,500 liters of vaccine. Where did they dump that much liquid? Did they inactivate or kill the contents first?
How much did the transporting, processing (if any) and disposal cost?
An aside, but still about where the money goes: The vials came from Corning Glass in Corning, NY. On Jan. 7, 2019, its stock price was $29. By April 7, 2020, it had dropped to $20, the lowest it had been in the past five years. Then a buying trend began. The stock price on May 7, 2021, hit a high of $46, an increase of 145% in one year. Then a selling trend began. By Dec. 7, 2023, two and a half years later, Corning’s stock price was back down to $29, the same as before the pandemic.
The Corning/Pfizer contract was publicly announced on May 28, 2020, three weeks after the 2020-2021 buying trend began. It was a multi-year contract, but I haven’t found exactly how long it was for or the total amount Corning was paid.
I wonder who did the buying right after the big share price drop and the selling as the price rose? Those were winning moves. Even if you bought but didn’t sell, by now you’ve made $9 (45%) on your $20 investment. And since we are promised more plandemics and new vaccines, that share value is sure to go up.
It’s even better than getting rich from weapons manufacturing when you can make and sell vials of vaccine that aren’t even used but just thrown away. Interesting that the same corporate groups who, together, own controlling interests in Corning and Pfizer also own the same in the biggest weapons manufacturers, Raytheon, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin. They are Vanguard, Blackrock and State Street.
Feel free to point out any math errors — that’s the part of my brain that seems most affected by whatever is shorting out my wiring.