LA County Supervisor Enraged Health Dept. allows clinics to throw unused vaccines in the trash

The LA County Department of Public Health is allowing clinics to throw unused vaccines in the trash instead of inoculating thousands of desperate residents to get the injection, and that has infuriated at least one county leader who is on a mission to reverse this. political situation.

LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn is reacting to a story that TMZ released last week, when a clinic that administered the vaccine to healthcare professionals ended the day with 150 unused vials of the COVID vaccine that were about to spoil … because a large number of people who signed up for no shows.

The clinic – the Men’s Health Foundation in Inglewood – contacted people who were not on the priority list, but desperately wanted the vaccine, and these people got the remaining doses. Incredibly, this goes against the guidelines of the County Health Department, which says that ONLY people on the priority list should be vaccinated, EVEN IF VACCINES OTHERWISE STAY IN THE GARBAGE.

We worked on this story for 4 days, and we went and came back with the Ministry of Health, which never gave us an answer to our question – IS IT NO BETTER TO VACCINE NON PRIORITY RESIDENTS THAN THROUGH PRECIOUS VACCINES IN THE GARBAGE? We never got an official answer to that question, but sources who were on a call with the Department of Health told us that they decided not to take punitive measures against clinics that replicated what the Men’s Health Foundation did. But, this is a terrible solution.

Here is the problem … the policy still says that non-priority people cannot get the vaccine now, so clinics are essentially being told that it is still wrong to vaccinate non-priority residents, even if the vaccines went to waste. Even worse, the County Health Department would NEVER PUBLICLY state that they would not act against these clinics, so the fear is that the vaccines are going to waste.

Supervisor Hahn is outraged and wants the Department of Health to follow the program and clarify this insane regulation … IMMEDIATELY.

The fact is that the Department, led by Barbara Ferrer, is totally unprepared for the vaccine’s launch, and the people in its Department are furious. There was no real vaccination plan, despite the fact that everyone had known for months that vaccines were on the horizon.

To get real … it defies common sense to throw away these life-saving vaccines instead of creating a waiting list for ANYONE when there are unused bottles that are no longer frozen and about to spoil.