afatbollix wrote: » EMA used to be based in London, London has all the experts already. How many people of the EMA wanted to stay in London instead of Amsterdam when it moved last year? The UK has also been doing a rolling review of the data. They didn't get the data all on day 1 like the EMA. But they will be seen as wrong in the EU or Irish eyes no matter what they do. I expect the Vaccine to be approved by the EMA it will just take longer, We should be asking the experts why it is taking longer?
MrMusician18 wrote: » Hancock claimed it was Brexit that permitted the approach (it didn't), which want true, this points to politicization of the approval.
Sky King wrote: » There was some other A hole from the UK govt on LBC radio claiming they were first because "Britain is smarter and better than the other countries". :rolleyes:https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1334430489957031938
Deleted User wrote: » What about the German scientists who actually developed the vaccine? There is something broken in the British psyche as evidenced by this type of attitude. What will the Brexiteers say when they find out the CEO and founder of BioNTech was a Turkish immigrant?
polesheep wrote: » Should he be given the benefit of the doubt? I'm not sure he was serious. They were both laughing as he said it.
“Based on these dates, and all going well according to that plan, it is realistic to expect that Ireland will commence its vaccination programme in the early days of January 2021 and that certainly is the plan that we’re working towards,” Reid said.
The European Commission has agreed advance purchase arrangements with six vaccine developers and Ireland will have the capacity to acquire almost 16 million vaccine doses.
“The key requirement in our preparation for the vaccination program has been the procurement, we just took delivery this week of nine ultra low temperature freezers on 1 December.” He said each of those nine freezers can store about 200,000 doses of vaccine and there is already a cold storage facility at Citywest that was procured a number of years ago.
ixoy wrote: » So an article on the Journal has a few more details URL]https://www.thejournal.ie/vaccine-hse-5287862-Dec2020/[/URL. Some choice quotes: “The key requirement in our preparation for the vaccination program has been the procurement, we just took delivery this week of nine ultra low temperature freezers on 1 December.” He said each of those nine freezers can store about 200,000 doses of vaccine and there is already a cold storage facility at Citywest that was procured a number of years ago.
Deleted User wrote: » I think Ferrari may have been laughing at the fact that he got him to say it. And Williamson was blustering and even if he truly doesn't believe what he said, he said it because it goes down well with their target demographic
stephenjmcd wrote: » Its highly unlikely to be hugely different to other countries. Quite possible it'll be very similar to the UK one. They aren't going to have people walking in and out of a hospital to get vaccinated, thats just stupidity. Let's think logically about this. Your likely to see something very similar to test centres that were deployed around the country.
crossman47 wrote: » The fact this country doesn't have a unique national identifier will complicate the process. But of course those who scream "Big Brother" at such a suggestion won't care. We shouls have had one years ago.
Pasteur. wrote: » That was my first thought Would they be using the test centres as vaccination centres
wes wrote: » PPS number could be repurposed.
brisan wrote: » By their own admission the HSEs IT systems are not fit for purpose and are currently being upgraded To ask them to repurpose the PPS numbers would be stretching them a bit far
Deleted User wrote: » PPS number is used to record flu vaccine uptake.
is_that_so wrote: » For fans of the immunity passports, the WHO are not in favour, but are looking at e-certificates.https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/1203/1182107-covid-world-health-organization/
brisan wrote: » Seemingly its the double dose thing that the system cant handle plus keeping track of which particular vaccine each individual got and the date they received the first dose and when the second dose is due
odyssey06 wrote: » Billions spent on 2020 on presumptive vaccine development... parallel phases of development... We didnt have to develop the vaccine but we should have build a presumptive IT system to keep track of multiple vaccine variants and doses. Ffs.
Water John wrote: » Is there a system that tracks each baby from birth through its vaccine schedule? Isn't that the same?
hmmm wrote: » Pfizer has run into problems with quality in its supply chain.https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/02/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html "Pfizer now expects to ship half of the doses it had previously planned this year after finding raw materials in early production that didn’t meet its standard, Dow Jones reported." It's good to see that quality control is being maintained, even if it costs supply in the short-term.
hmmm wrote: » "Pfizer now expects to ship half of the doses it had previously planned this year after finding raw materials in early production that didn’t meet its standard, Dow Jones reported."
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