The Vaccine Stockpile Is Headed to the Dump

Hundreds of millions of COVID-19 doses, stockpiled by governments during the pandemic, have gone to waste, essentially flushing billions of dollars of federal funds down the toilet.

• The U.K. stockpiled 650 million doses of COVID-19 injections during the pandemic, but only 142 million have been used

• The remainder expire six to 12 months after their date of manufacture, which means millions of doses are going to end up as trash; about $5 billion stands to be wasted on unused shots in the U.K.

• The U.K. government has also written off bi…