Fann Linn wrote: » As someone said last night 2 Garda stations and Dolphins Barn fire brigade station within 15 minutes of the Coombe. Plenty of front line workers there.
Get Real wrote: » Good point, fair enough if that's the case. I hope it is. Then overall, I don't feel one way or another on the story.
An Ri rua wrote: » If they're getting more doses than expected and getting caught out on this scale, then they're not very scientific in their methods are they?
Get Real wrote: » (posted a few mins ago and accidentally deleted in edited mode, I'm an idiot 😅) This is a fair point, and you can see efforts were tried. But jesus, for the last 16, would it not be fairly obvious that you just don't do that. Lidl is a two min drive from the Coombe (granted may have been closed) Dolphins barn fire Station is a 6 minute drive Kilmainham Garda Station is 8 mins. Are you telling me there wasn't 16 people available, within minutes of a journey, that were available to receive this vaccine? And that can be seen as being pedantic, fair enough. But, if the statement says all efforts were made, we need to know the details of what areas/suburbs these vaccines were given to. Are you telling me it was closer and easier than a six minute drive away? To people who are out every day and exposed. I can't blame the staff of the families who got to avail of it. But as the one in charge, the master should have known this "scandal" was inevitable, and you just don't do that. Particularly if it turns out his own family members got it.
SteM wrote: » If they're getting more doses per vial than expected then it would be hard to match X recipients with X doses imo.
c.p.w.g.w wrote: » Will agree thatvthw should not have been binned...but surely they could have been used in nearby hospital, which are 15-30 Minutes drive, or even to other frontline staff nearby
Christy42 wrote: » Presumably those were part of the 104 or the attempts to get the 104.
Chips Lovell wrote: » The upshot of this now is that excess vaccine doses are going to get binned because the people administering them are going to be worried about the flak they'll get if someone not on the list receives one.
lawred2 wrote: » I don't know does this wash... any bit of advance planning should match X recipients with X doses.
The hospital vaccinated throughout that day and said at the time, “five vaccines were expected from each vial” of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. “However throughout the day it was possible to get six doses out of most vials, and in some cases seven,” they said
Casati wrote: » Why would they have gone to waste? Surely the hospital could have made a call to other hospitals or the many medical centres that operate within 2km of the hospital. If they have any reasonable level of planning it would be very easy to find a front line medical workers who hasn't been vaccinated
Get Real wrote: » This is a fair point, and you can see efforts were tried. But jesus, for the last 16, would it not be fairly obvious that you just don't do that. Lidl is a two min drive from the Coombe (granted may have been closed) Dolphins barn fire Station is a 6 minute drive Kilmainham Garda Station is 8 mins. Are you telling me there wasn't 16 people available, within minutes of a journey, that were available to receive this vaccine? And that can be seen as being pedantic, fair enough. But, if the statement says all efforts were made, we need to know the details of what areas/suburbs these vaccines were given to. Are you telling me it was closer and easier than a six minute drive away? To people who are out every day and exposed. I can't blame the staff of the families who got to avail of it. But as the one in charge, the master should have known this "scandal" was inevitable, and you just don't do that. Particularly if it turns out his own family members got it.
yosser hughes wrote: » Two college going kids of the Master of the Hospital were among those who got the vaccine. Was there really nobody else around? I bet he didn't offer the cleaning or canteen staff a vaccine. James's Hospital is literally 5 minutes away also. I have to laugh at the tolerance people have for this type of carry on. Many making excuses for this. Why? It's an acceptance of low standards.
meeeeh wrote: » Shinner then... Predictable.
kingstevii wrote: » Theres 151 paramedics every night in Dublin for brigade, so enough cover id say.. One phone call to the fire brigade mobilisation officer would've been enough..
seamus wrote: » And what, though? Transfer a patient from an acute hospital to a maternity hospital just so you can jab them, and then send them back again? Have staff members from another hospital come in, risking contamination of the maternity hospital? There's lots of great ideas in hindsight, but when you're on the clock you can't make rash decisions. They weren't given to kids. They were the adult children of the Master of the Coombe, who also work in the hospital on a part time bases. The Irish Times has framed this whole thing to sound like he called his wife and she drove the X-7 down with some five year olds in the back seat to get the vaccines.
Jim_Hodge wrote: » Talk about 'fake news'! There's so much wrong with that statement that it really doesn't warrant comment but such patently inaccurate garbage has to be called out for what it is.
begbysback wrote: » It’s outrageous that people are outraged, it’s a handful of vaccines which were going to waste and somebody innocently tried to put to some use instead of into the bin.
