美國丟棄超八千萬劑新冠疫苗

The United States discarded 82.1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from December 2020 through mid-May this year, just over 11 percent of the doses the federal government distributed, according to NBC News.

美國全國廣播公司援引疾病控制和預防中心的數(shù)據(jù)報道，2020年12月至今年5月中旬，美國丟棄了8210萬劑新冠疫苗，占聯(lián)邦政府分發(fā)疫苗總數(shù)的11%。

Two retail pharmacy chains, CVS and Walmart, were responsible for over a quarter of the doses thrown away in that time period, in part due to the sheer volume of vaccines they handled, said the report, citing data offered by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
兩家大型零售商CVS公司和沃爾瑪公司丟棄的劑量占四分之一以上，部分原因是他們處理的疫苗數(shù)量龐大。

Two states discarded more than a quarter of their doses - Oklahoma, which tossed 28 percent of the nearly 4 million doses it received, and Alaska, which threw away almost 27 percent of its 1 million doses, according to the CDC data.
在州層面，兩州疫苗浪費比例超過25%。俄克拉何馬州接收近400萬劑，浪費比例為28%；阿拉斯加州所收100萬劑疫苗中，近27%遭棄置。