U.S. tosses expiring vaccines as the world waits for doses

Aug 12, 2021 9 min

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Many unused COVID-vaccine doses in the U.S. are being thrown away, even as many countries can’t get enough shots. <a href="https://apple.news/ArgEinsWYSQOSRU96kdzxmw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">NPR</a> explains why transferring unused doses abroad is so complicated. As newly remote workers move to small places, turning them into “Zoom towns,” rising housing prices are driving out longtime residents. The <a href="https://apple.news/AvMEQ14k9QMKu1xvZtvPw-A?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Washington Post</a> looks at the impact in one community. The Quinault Indian Nation has lived on the coast of Washington state for thousands of years. The <a href="https://apple.news/ALfNbmuUlQ5CD4zkpnQNguQ?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">Seattle Times</a> reports on how climate change is forcing the tribe to move, and says it’s a problem affecting more and more Indigenous communities. <a href="https://apple.news/AkQAcleOqRoaVk5CDSyNQFw?campaign_id=applenewstoday_shownotes">CNN</a> looks at the effort to preserve natural silence in places that haven’t been polluted by human-made noise.

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