SusanC10 wrote: » Any thoughts on when we might see approved Vaccines for children aged 12+ ?
brickster69 wrote: » Those replies are ridiculous: Quote: If's and maybe's while England vaccinates it's whole population by July/August I would say that is easily achievable if the 30 million J&J come through early enough.
ACitizenErased wrote: » EU have agreed a deal with Pfizer-BioNTech for 200 million more doses. 75 million of these are available Q2.https://apnews.com/article/business-europe-coronavirus-pandemic-coronavirus-vaccine-89d49fdbab80459090a9ce97c39fbfc1?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow
Turtwig wrote: » Human challenge trials do not sit comfortably with me. I get this is an emergency and all. It still doesn't sit right. There's no rescue therapy for covid yet.
ACitizenErased wrote: » I don't see an issue with it tbh. If people want to volunteer that's their own choice.
eigrod wrote: » Kingston Mills on Claire Byrne now, always think he’s the most realistic ‘pundit’. Never too optimistic, never too negative. Said J&J is great news but reluctant to use the ‘game changer’ term.
SheepsClothing wrote: » With all the toing and froing going on with these vaccines, I feel like I've completely lost track of how many we are anticipating to have in Q2. Anyone who is tracking this have any estimations for weekly deliveries?
hynesie08 wrote: » https://mobile.twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1361808346400120836 That's pretty good.
Bottleopener wrote: » The Danish Serum Institute have been great for updates on this, they have a calendar of "expected vaccinations" updated very regularly - their population is a tad higher than Ireland so adjust figures down marginally (we are 4.9mil, they are 5.8mil), but it is just a small adjustment down. Their current calendar is:https://www.sst.dk/-/media/Udgivelser/2021/Corona/Vaccination/Kalender/Vaccinationskalender-A4-webtilgaengelig.ashx?la=da&hash=5234BB82243B24FD492FDDAC1388CA9A22BC83D6 At the top are expected delivery numbers. This suggests all vaccinated by the end of June. They had an article this week stating that this had been brought forward by a few weeks, and explained why here (google translate or knowledge of Danish required):https://www.sst.dk/da/Nyheder/2021/Alle-der-oensker-det-kan-vaere-vaccineret-inden-sommer This is owing to approx 1mil extra Pfizer expected by the end of Q2, which squares with the AP article above that states that the EU is set to get 75 million extra by the end of Q2, and as such, it is not unreasonable to make such a projection for Ireland.
lbj666 wrote: » Is it realistic to expect 420k doses a week in April if Denmark is expecting 500k a week.
kevin7 wrote: » A lot of discussion here on how much vaccine might be coming and when. Theoretically, that all sounds good and if those vaccines were put into people's arms with a week or two or their delivery, we could be done with this in early summer. So, the question is logistically have we got the ability to vaccinate millions quickly? Or...will the problem change from one of vaccine supply to one of "rollout"?
RugbyLad11 wrote: » We should be able to rollout it out fine. If not they should get civil defense and st John's ambulance service etc to assist.
titan18 wrote: » I'd hope we can. If we've the supply, GPs could easily do 30k + a day (you'd be looking at about 10 a gp per day then which doesn't seem like a huge number to be looking for) which would give us 150k from Monday to Friday. Add in the mass vaccination centres, people who'll get it on hospitals etc, pharmacies, dentists, weekend work etc we should be easily be hitting 300k a week at a minimum I'd hope.
is_that_so wrote: » 250K a week is currently the target when we have the supplies. J&J will make that a lot easier to hit. Come April and May when we are heading in that direction this whole slow rollout strop will be forgotten.
