Thousands of doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children ages five to 11 may be headed to the dump at the end of this month.Public Health Specialist and Co-coordinator of the National Vaccination Programme Dr Elizabeth Ferdinand has revealed that, so far, just 240 first doses have been administered and only 135 children have been fully vaccinated from the 14 400 doses of the paediatric vaccine gifted to Barbados by the British Government in August.“The expiry date for the vaccines is the end of November,” Dr Ferdinand told Barbados TODAY. “We are trying to get some more but at the moment I don’t have any more in stock. So, just like how the adult Pfizer will run out, so will the children’s vaccine run out at the end of this month until I get some more.”“There are a lot of children out there who haven’t even had a first dose, so I am very disappointed with the uptake,” she added.Dr Ferdinand stressed that those children who have already had a first dose must get the second by the end of November as no more will be available after that time.
