When vials of doses are thawed to prepare them for use, they cannot be refrozen. Vials that have been punctured must be used within just a few hours. Combine those factors with tight state-imposed parameters for which people can currently receive the vaccine and waste is practically unavoidable—when people cancel appointments with little notice, it can be hard for health care workers to find new recipients off the street who qualify under the state's current phase. They're left either breaking the law or throwing doses in the garbage.

So, burgers, don't you wish these people were in charge of all of your healthcare?

Why the question in the headline?

"Leftist collectivist policy leads to massive vaccine waste numbers" would be just as accurate a title without the need for a question mark. Treat people differently based upon broad categories. This person's white, this person's black, this one's old, this one's young, legally none of them can be treated in the same manner because treating people equally is bigoted and evil.

That said: boo hoo. The Fully Tested vaccine is going bad, oh no. Why not just walk through a maternity ward and give it to all the women there? It's an entirely safe vaccine, after all, and pregnant and recent-birth women are somewhat immunocompromised.