For months, a refrigerator at a government facility in the Dutch university town of Leiden has housed 90 or so small white boxes that contain thousands of dollars worth of AstraZeneca vaccine doses. But most of them are emblazoned with six small numbers that will soon render them worthless: 08.2021.
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(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 24, 2021 empty vials of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine are pictured at a coronavirus vaccination centre at at the Wanda Metropolitano stadium in Madrid.