Not allowing unused doses to go to ineligible people is legitimate. It’s one of those cases where something is a Pareto improvement in the immediate situation, but creates bad incentives.
If you allow unused doses to go to other people, you’ll end up with corruption where doses are deliberately held back from eligible people because someone paid under the table to have doses set aside as “leftover doses”.
It’s similar to why some organizations have a policy of making sure their discarded equipment goes into a landfill rather than letting employees take it. Because that way it’s not possible to bribe someone to throw out good equipment for you to take. That sucks if you could have used the discarded equipment, but it’s good if you’re someone affected by fraud and it eliminated the incentive for fraud.
Not allowing unused doses to go to ineligible people is legitimate. It’s one of those cases where something is a Pareto improvement in the immediate situation, but creates bad incentives.
If you allow unused doses to go to other people, you’ll end up with corruption where doses are deliberately held back from eligible people because someone paid under the table to have doses set aside as “leftover doses”.
It’s similar to why some organizations have a policy of making sure their discarded equipment goes into a landfill rather than letting employees take it. Because that way it’s not possible to bribe someone to throw out good equipment for you to take. That sucks if you could have used the discarded equipment, but it’s good if you’re someone affected by fraud and it eliminated the incentive for fraud.