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Governments, drugmakers and vaccination sites are discarding tens of millions of unused Covid-19 vaccine doses amid sagging demand, a sharp reversal from the early days of the mass-vaccination campaign, when doses were scarce.

Vaccine manufacturer Moderna Inc. recently discarded about 30 million doses of its Covid-19 shot after failing to find takers, while pharmacies and clinics have had to throw out unused doses from multi-dose vials from Moderna and Pfizer Inc. and its partner BioNTech SE that have a short shelf life once they are opened.

Germany’s health officials have disposed of about 3.9 million Covid-19 vaccine doses that were sitting in a federal central warehouse and expired at the end of June. Canada has disposed of 1.2 million expired doses of Moderna’s vaccine, and is set to throw out about 13.6 million expired doses of AstraZeneca PLC’s Covid-19 vaccine, according to the government health department.

Will the party be over by the time Enanta reaches the finish line?

There is still a substantial percentage of the population that have yet to be vaccinated, protection wanes with time in those who are vaccinated and new variants keep arising that are better at evading the defenses of vaccinated and previously infected people. Sadly, this means the "party" will go on for quite some time.