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bilby commented on the word vaccine hunting
"What is Vaccine Hunting?
Due to the intricacies around the extremely cold storage that the COVID vaccines require, there are rare occasions where "spare doses" may go unused & should be made available to anyone.
When a distribution site defrosts a tray with 100s of vials, they must use all the doses between 5 and 24 hours (depending on the manufacturer) -- before, according to their protocol, the remaining doses must be thrown out. When there are no shows at the end of the day, some providers will start letting anyone they can find through the door to have their first shot.
We aim to help connect and crowdsource information about vaccine distribution sites that have expiring doses with the goal of getting ANYONE that's mobile and ready their first dose."
- vaccinehunter.org
February 5, 2021