JTMan wrote: » FT on the J&J production problems here (paywall): - Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine supplier Catalent had to resort to checking vials by hand for two weeks. Automated visual verification line not working. - Staff moved from other parts of the company to complete the vital checks manually. - J&J had to scale up its vaccine substance manufacturing from a small facility to a large one in the Netherlands. While far faster than usual, took longer than hoped for. - “To accelerate production and expand capacity, we have entered into new agreements with established manufacturers". - But still confident of delivering 100m by June 2021 in the US and 200m doses in 2021 in the EU.
Caquas wrote: » I'll give this one more shot, but it is galling to be constantly accused of not understanding the precise issue that I raised (at post no. 1987). Whether the delay in our vaccine rollout is due to the level of supplies coming into the country is an entirely secondary issue and it is nonsense to claim, as Embraer187 did, that "Ireland is doing exceptionally well on the vaccine roll out" because we have used almost all our available supplies. It disturbs me that so many posters here fail to understand this point. It seems that what matters to them is that blame should not attach to those administering the vaccines, even if our rollout is clearly lagging behind our nearest neighbour. Imagine a business with the hottest new product in the world. People are literally begging for the stuff. The retail manager says to the CEO "I know we have only met a fraction of the demand and our nearest competitor has sold 10 times more than us but we're really doing exceptionally well. Look - our shelves are almost empty! Or is this the normal business model of the HSE? Look at those waiting lists!
Apogee wrote: » Big ramp up of sequencing of samples to monitor variants:
embraer170 wrote: » Has he been given a date?
DaSilva wrote: » Hmm, are they actually sequencing the samples or just counting S gene failures, if its the latter, it doesn't guarantee its B.1.1.7, could be some other variant...
brickster69 wrote: » Parisiens having a nice Saturday afternoon today
Deleted User wrote: » For the thousandth time. The vaccines are not available to us to be able to do it quicker. There are not shelves packed with doses waiting to be sent to us. I hope you are deliberately trolling, otherwise....
Caquas wrote: » I get it... really... I have always gotten it....we are adminstering the vaccines that we have received. And yes, we are doing better than some other EU countries in that respect. What I don't accept is that we are "doing exceptionally well on the vaccine rollout". That was Embraer170's claim which I challenged in my post 1987 and since then I've had a half-dozen posters insult and belittle me without addressing the real issue which I set out repeatedly. No one accused them of being trolls but you suggest I may one, without any addressing the points made in my posts. You think I am saying there are shelves packed with doses although I finished my last post with "Look - our shelves are almost empty!"
ACitizenErased wrote: » Wow....https://twitter.com/higginsdavidw/status/1365735751149846534?s=21
NeuralNetwork wrote: » What I don’t get is all the headlines about EU countries going outside the programme and so on, while you’ve Denmark saying it will be finishing by June, using just the EU supplies. It doesn’t seem we are short of vaccines. It’s ramping up, but there does seem to be a lot of headlines about panicking governments who seem to have piles of vaccines from the EU programme that haven’t been injected. I wonder if this is just a case of paper not refusing ink and blame someone else for poor domestic logistics? Or is Denmark being far too optimistic?
Stark wrote: » Can't imagine Curevac/Novavax arriving soon enough to make a difference.
gmisk wrote: » My other half got vaccine (AZ) on Friday afternoon as did some of his colleagues. He is in his 30s and works in healthcare. He really isn't great today shivering and aching all over and hasn't left bed. A few others complaining of similar things today. Hopefully he gets over it pretty quickly.
Sanjuro wrote: » Sorry, could someone break this down for me like I'm not very smart. Which is fairly true. How are Sweden forecasting upwards? And how can the same metric be applied to Ireland?
astrofool wrote: » Basically, AstraZeneca are saying they will have all the promised supplies for Q2, instead of the 50% that was forecast (reading between the lines, it looks like they'll be sourcing some of it outside the EU, which is "interesting" to say the least), if that holds true, then the rollout also goes faster, so countries can revise their schedule.
astrofool wrote: » Basically, AstraZeneca are saying they will have all the promised supplies for Q2, instead of the 50% that was forecast (reading between the lines, it looks like they'll be sourcing some of it outside the EU, which is "interesting" to say the least), if that holds true, then the rollout also goes faster, so countries can revise their schedule. It could also be optimistic approval and supply of Novavax and Curevac (or revised supplies for Pfizer and Moderna).
Scuid Mhór wrote: » How are AZ fluctuating between 50% and 100% over merely a couple of days? Those are extreme differentials.
humberklog wrote: » My parents got their first jab (Pfiser) yesterday. They're late 80' and in very good health. Both parents feeling fine; a bit tired, a little sore. They're mentally a foot taller- so much happier since they got news of their appointments. 2nd jab is 26th March. However on Tuesday my Scottish friend mentioned his father had to go into hospital that day which isn't unknown as he has mild angina but otherwise in good shape. Both parents have had both their jabs (AZ). The last one about 2 weeks ago. My friend's father died this morning. From what he told me (things are still a bit sketchy) the fairly routine procedure didn't work as it usually would. Apparently the antibiotics that had worked in the past this time had zero of the expected effect and the doctors failed to find successful alternative. There's still a lot of info to come for the family- coroners report etc. and as there was underlying issues and it is more than likely an unfortunate coincidence but I thought to post about it here for the record.
Stark wrote: » I did a back of the envelope calculation that included Astrazeneca fulfilling its promises to the EU for Q2 (as opposed to the 50% reduction included in government forecast) and arrived at the same conclusion of 99% of adults getting first dose by end of June. Overall, I assumed 1.6m doses of Pfizer, 1.8m doses of AZ and 600,000 doses of J&J in Q2 (don't think we're getting enough Moderna in Q2 to make a tangible difference). I'm guessing Sweden are going off similar. Can't imagine Curevac/Novavax arriving soon enough to make a difference.
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