There is some logic to that, or at least was at that point in time. When there were many people trying to get one, and some were booking an appointment to do so that was weeks into the future, it makes sense to at least ask those who are in the store for something if they might be interested, as you are more likely to find someone who has an appointment a month away that is happy to get it today instead, rather than having something in such limited supply go to waste while people are wanting it but can't get it quickly enough.Alpha8472 wrote: ↑February 18th, 2023, 7:56 pm When the vaccine first came out the corporate office would punish pharmacies for wasting even a single dose of COVID vaccine. It was awful. You had to make sure all the doses were used by the end of the day rather than expire. You would end up begging people to get the vaccine.
One the initial demand was filled, then it became more of an issue, and should have reverted to simply making people aware that they could get it but not having to try and use it if no one was interested.
The question with that (which is probably impossible to answer) is what would have happened to the people who took it if they had not.storewanderer wrote: ↑February 19th, 2023, 10:53 am What I have seen is the problem is people who have the COVID Vaccine during 2022 were constantly getting COVID the same way other people who have no vaccine were. I am regularly around people with a vaccine and people without any vaccine. People from both groups have had COVID multiple times and there was little to no difference in their experiences.
Given that at any time (no matter which version was going around at that point), two people could catch it and one would be very sick (maybe even die from it), while the other wouldn't even know they had it unless they were tested (due to needing that for something), it seems very difficult to know if those who did get a vaccine and had similar symptoms to someone else who didn't get one would have had the same reaction without the vaccine, or if they would have instead wound up in the far more serious category.