COVID-19: Vaccine and testing procedures Megathread Part 3 - Read OP

titan18

Strazdas wrote: »

That's what Harris is suggesting in fact - says he wants this so that all uni students in the country can return to their courses as soon as September (having missed an entire year at college).

If we're all vaccinated by then though, why the need for mass testing like that. You'd kind of be what's the point of getting a vaccine if you need a test to still do anything.

snotboogie

stephenjmcd wrote: »

Sounds like complete and utter crap. A random lad on twitter knows the goings on between the German & Irish governments.....

He's not quite a random lad, he is the primary developer behind the North Quays in Waterford. Complete buffer though, he got mixed up with a proposal that there would be a train going every hour from Dublin to Waterford with the train taking one hour and he refuses to accept he made a mistake and continues to repeat the lie. Also commissioned a bizarre study that aimed to prove Waterford was actually the 2nd biggest city in Ireland based on one hour commute times.

VG31

titan18 wrote: »

If we're all vaccinated by then though, why the need for mass testing like that. You'd kind of be what's the point of getting a vaccine if you need a test to still do anything.

Exactly. By September we should be trying to encourge anyone who hasn't opted to take a vaccine yet to take one. The best way to be that is to make life as easy as possible for vaccinated people. If vaccinated people still have to get tested a lot of people simply won't bother taking it. Are we going to start testing people for colds too?

NeuralNetwork

titan18 wrote: »

If we're all vaccinated by then though, why the need for mass testing like that. You'd kind of be what's the point of getting a vaccine if you need a test to still do anything.

Sounds like we're not going to be at herd immunity levels of vaccination by September then, which is rather unambitious, or we're going to be rolling something out months after it's no longer needed, which is not unheard of with the way this campaign has been run so far.

We should have rolled out antigen testing months and months ago. It's been remarkably slow to happen here. A lot of talk. A lot of paranoia about reinventing the wheel when it comes to signing off and approving tests and nothing rolled out.

If there are big issues with variants in September however, we'll be looking at ongoing problems and needing to roll out booster shots / revaccination of cohorts to ensure it's not going to surge back.

titan18

Ya, id completely get it we were talking about last summer. Seems far too late now and something we should hopefully not even need.

JPA

Bubbaclaus wrote: »

Take a look at the rest of that fellas Twitter feed, clearly a bull****ter. Also is claiming up to 160k people got vaccinated by pretending to be healthcare workers. Just making up stuff for attention.

Probably posts on boards

Yes he does, https://touch.boards.ie/user/804994

Mark1916

https://twitter.com/wsj/status/1377992002357317634?s=21

Irish Stones

Mark1916 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/wsj/status/1377992002357317634?s=21

Wouldn't it be the same if they ship more vials?

NeuralNetwork

Irish Stones wrote: »

Wouldn't it be the same if they ship more vials?

Vial filling is extremely complex for injectables and being able to fill more doses into one vial means they can get far more doses out to people, more quickly.

There aren't that many places that can do huge scale fill and finish. It's an extremely technical process and requires machines that are highly specialised and only made by a very small number of companies.

This is a huge bottleneck that people don't quite understand in commentary. In normal times, to even order the machinery to do this would take a lot of forward planning (often a couple of years or more) as they're small volume, highly specialist companies who provide this kind of thing.

You can't just ring up and say "send me 4 of those MK9 vial fillers".

So getting more doses per fill is going to speed things up.

Ideally, these would be distributed in pre-filled injectors as is the case for flu jabs, but so far that's not happening.

blowitupref

In a little over 3 months more people fully vaccinated (236,759) than people that tested positive for covid in 13 months (236,600)

josip

blowitupref wrote: »

In a little over 3 months more people fully vaccinated (236,759) than people that tested positive for covid in 13 months (236,600)

Opportunity lost there I think.
If we'd accurately targeted those 236,600 for vaccines from the beginning, we'd have been enjoying Zero Covid here now.
Another diabolical shambles by the HSE.

Economics101

josip: was that a joke? How could anyone identify in advance who was going to get Covid?

My husband got an appointment for Tuesday in City Hall Cork ( cohort 4) the relief!

Any idea what vaccine he will be given, he just got a call, he didn't think to ask. It doesn't matter he is happy with either, I am just interested to know when he will be fully vaccinated.

is_that_so

Deleted User wrote: »

My husband got an appointment for Tuesday in City Hall Cork ( cohort 4) the relief!

Any idea what vaccine he will be given, he just got a call, he didn't think to ask. It doesn't matter he is happy with either, I am just interested to know when he will be fully vaccinated.

We've just received 100K of AZ so most probably that.

LineOfBeauty

I've been pretty negative on here with regards government policy to how we handle restrictions prior to a general mass of the population being vaccinated. But I've absolutely no issues with the vaccine rollout. They've been as quick as they've been allowed to be with the supply they have. They altered course with the change to an age based approach that should quicken things up further. My grandmother got her first short a couple days ago and it was easy and smooth. All in all I think they have done, and are doing, a really good job doing a very difficult task.

Russman

is_that_so wrote: »

We've just received 100K of AZ so most probably that.

Are we due any more AZ in April ? Even in theory ! I realise “due” from AZ means sweet FA these days !
Just thinking of cohorts 5 & 6 who will be done in the MVCs and can book from 19th, wonder what they’ll be getting.

is_that_so

Russman wrote: »

Are we due any more AZ in April ? Even in theory ! I realise “due” from AZ means sweet FA these days !
Just thinking of cohorts 5 & 6 who will be done in the MVCs and can book from 19th, wonder what they’ll be getting.

I really don't know but Stephen or Paul will tell us on Twitter! Pfizer is supposed to be increasing and we'll also have some J&J from the middle of the month.

eoinbn

Russman wrote: »

Are we due any more AZ in April ? Even in theory ! I realise “due” from AZ means sweet FA these days !
Just thinking of cohorts 5 & 6 who will be done in the MVCs and can book from 19th, wonder what they’ll be getting.

Yes, we are scheduled to get more AZ in April. Probably around 225k.
My guess is that the first big Pfizer/BioNtech shipment will be for the week of the 19th. That should clear the reminder of the over 70's first doses.
The remaining cohorts will likely get whatever vaccines are available in the MVC.

Micky 32

https://twitter.com/laoneill111/status/1378048070055829505?s=21

Call me Al

Does anyone know what the predicted deliveries of Pfizer and Moderna are for the next few months?

Wolf359f

Call me Al wrote: »

Does anyone know what the predicted deliveries of Pfizer and Moderna are for the next few months?

It think it's all speculation, but if you take these figures and divide by 2.35 is may give you a guide:

pew

[Deleted User] wrote: »

My husband got an appointment for Tuesday in City Hall Cork ( cohort 4) the relief!

Any idea what vaccine he will be given, he just got a call, he didn't think to ask. It doesn't matter he is happy with either, I am just interested to know when he will be fully vaccinated.

More than likely AZ.

I'm also booked for Tuesday in a hospital in Dublin and my text said I was getting AZ.

JTMan

Irish Independent leads with the Irish plan for the vaccination of those aged 15 and under here.

Nothing major new but the article makes reference to vaccines for 12-15 year olds in "first term of the next school year".

The US plan to vaccinate 12-15 year olds before school resumes i.e. August (Pfizer and Moderna)

The UK plan to vaccinate 6-15 year olds before school resumes i.e. August (AZ)

Hopefully the EMA will approve the Pfizer vaccine before school resumes and the first and maybe second dose can be given in August rather than during the first term.

Also, I wonder is AZ will seek approval of 6-15 year olds from the EMA and if so could Ireland vaccinate 6-15 year olds before school resumes?

Pete_Cavan

Would it make sense vaccinate school kids before low risk young adults? Not sure if it is more desirable to have them vaccined before the start of the new school year or not. Maybe the logistics of vaccinating the school kids would be easier when they are all together in school, in which case waiting until September would make sense.

funnydoggy

What's the story with AstraZeneca and the South African variant? Reading one or two articles from the past week saying the vaccine isn't doing great towards it. Am I reading the wrong articles?

vienne86

funnydoggy wrote: »

What's the story with AstraZeneca and the South African variant? Reading one or two articles from the past week saying the vaccine isn't doing great towards it. Am I reading the wrong articles?

I haven't read anything about this lately, but wasn't there talk of a booster jab, perhaps in the autumn? Personally I am not that keen on getting a third jab in a relatively short timeframe.....I'm in my late sixties. But if that's the way it is, so be it.

Klonker

correct horse battery staple wrote: »

It’s useless against it, that’s the story

Any article that shows that its useless against it?

Probes

correct horse battery staple wrote: »

It’s useless against it, that’s the story

It doesn't have efficacy against mild disease. Logic would state that it wouldn't do particularly well against severe disease but that is unknown at this point, and it may well reduce that.

Probes

https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1377363376305664002?s=20

ek motor

funnydoggy wrote: »

What's the story with AstraZeneca and the South African variant? Reading one or two articles from the past week saying the vaccine isn't doing great towards it. Am I reading the wrong articles?

Yes you are , you should only read articles with good news.