This is how much 83,508 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer had to be destroyed. According to Uģis Dumpis, the head of the infectious disease surveillance service at Stradiņš Hospital, this amount would have been enough to vaccinate all representatives of at-risk groups - people for whom the virus can cause severe, sometimes fatal complications. However, many, believing that the dangerous virus, which has claimed more than six million lives worldwide since the beginning of the pandemic, has weakened over time, stopped fearing it. SARS-CoV-2 has indeed undergone significant mutations, and the immunity developed in people after repeated infections and vaccinations has reduced the clinical severity of the infection. Not only in Latvia but in many other countries, people no longer see the need for annual vaccinations. In the United States, for example, the vaccination coverage of the adult population at the end of December 2024 was approximately 21% - the lowest rate since the introduction of Covid-19 vaccines, and it is half the coverage for flu vaccinations (42%), reports The New England Journal of Medicine. In Latvia, doctors do not express particular concern about cases of death from the virus, as there are few: since the beginning of autumn, 20 people with Covid-19 have died. According to the Center for Disease Prevention and Control, there are also few patients with Covid-19 being treated in hospitals. Over the five years since the emergence of Covid-19, the risks have decreased, and people have relaxed, no longer thinking about vaccinations. However, doctors do not consider it normal that the state budget does not allocate funds to increase vaccination coverage - for awareness campaigns about new vaccines and the necessity of vaccinations, especially for people from high-risk groups. Formally, information can be found on the websites of medical institutions, but since people do not like to search for and read official materials, information needs to be presented as simply and visually as possible - through visual messages in the media. Family doctors also play an important role in this.