Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine effort was ‘efficient,’ but millions of doses wasted, auditor general finds

Hogan estimated that as of May 2022, the government had spent about $5 billion on 169 million COVID-19 vaccine doses. She estimated that, based on a cost of about $30 per dose, the government had spent about $5 billion on 169 million vaccine doses by May 2022. By that point, however, only 15.3 million shots had been delivered to countries in need, the auditor general found, while another 13.6 million doses had expired without being used. In the months since, the government managed to donate another 11 million doses, while 10 million other doses expired on storage shelves, Hogan told reporters. That means more than 23 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been wasted so far.