> Dr. Gokal said the advice was to vaccinate people eligible under the 1(a) category then those under the 1(b) category. > After that, he said, the message was

> Dr. Gokal said the advice was to vaccinate people eligible under the 1(a) category then those under the 1(b) category. > After that, he said, the message was: “Just put it in people’s arms. We don’t want any doses to go to waste. Period.” It sounds like not wasting the limited vaccine was actual policy (possibly unofficial policy, but the message he was receiving). And this would be the right policy. It's absolutely correct to get vaccines into people before the expire, so long as you hav correctly exhausted all means available to you of finding the right people. The issue is that the states haven't made it easy for providers to find the right people when you have six hours remaining to use a vaccine.