Nothing you've said is incorrect. I have to wonder though if this dumping of old vaccines on people who wouldn't have gotten them in the first place might allow

Nothing you've said is incorrect. I have to wonder though if this dumping of old vaccines on people who wouldn't have gotten them in the first place might allow people to survive who might otherwise have not. Sure, the vaccines are not optimal, but they do reduce risk. And of course this situation isn't fair, but perhaps it's still better than the baseline conditions these folks would have had to live with.