Godot. wrote: » If Johnson & Johnson hit the ground running next month a lot can be forgiven. If they don't the EU vaccination programme is without doubt a shambles.Look how cohesive the US's vaccination programme has been. Joint together thinking, assisting in every stage of production with the private companies... something the EU should have been doing last year but only realised it in Feburary 2021.
Yevon wrote: » If the EMA gives the go ahead to continue as before, they will likely be administered over next weekend when numbers usually drop due to lack of supply. Which is probably a more reasonable step than trying to get people to make their way to a MCV in the middle of the night Thursday when they can just get it Saturday/Sunday instead.
Headshot wrote: » Do we know when the over 70s with higher risks are due for the vaccine?
IRISHSPORTSGUY wrote: » Jaysus, looking at Facebook today a lot of people expect Michael Martin to convince Joe Biden to hand us over a couple of million jabs during the St Paddy's Day Zoom call.
VonLuck wrote: » It's not out of the realm of possibility. They are currently holding onto 30 million doses of AstraZeneca that they're not using. Biden has a fondness for Ireland so I'm sure he'd want to help in any way possible. The problem is how do you sell it to the voting public. I don't think it'd ever look well selling vaccines to another country before your own is fully vaccinated.
Bubbaclaus wrote: » The only chance of the US giving us some vaccines before every American has been offered one would be if we agreed to become the 51st State.
Azatadine wrote: » The Belgian view....https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1371563480449486848?s=19
Bubbaclaus wrote: » Can anyone explain the 105k (so far) people in Cohort 1 that have received a dose? I thought the nursing home population was about 25k or so? Are we saying there is 80k staff there on top of this?
Apogee wrote: » Karina Butler/NIAC on AZ clusters - Decision was not made on basis of normal clots that you would expect to see in populations. Rather in Norway, it was a cluster of 3 cases in a single hospital within a 2 week period in a younger age group.
The spin-out from the Universities of Helsinki and Eastern Finland will leverage years of research to test and bring to market a nasal spray vaccine against COVID-19.
JTMan wrote: » What happens when nearly all of those aged 16+ get the vaccine, but yet, as many predict, Covid-19 still continues to circulate? Does it predominantly become a disease of children? (I realise that those aged 12-15 might be able to get a vaccine in late 2021).https://twitter.com/DrZoeHyde/status/1371443128121532417
shamco wrote: » FFS just heard on the radio that if the EMA clear the AZ vaccine we can restart vaccinations next week. Surely we should restart immediately.
robinph wrote: » Which absolutely needs investigating as something odd is happening. That the same batch they are blaming this on is being used across the EU without similar issues suggests it's probably something else. Whilst they might not be currently vaccinating similar age groups across the EU, there are plenty in the UK of younger ages vaccinated, and presumably Norway has been vaccinating similar age groups across Norway. This points to either just some freak occurrence, or something else going on at that hospital. Would be a reason to pause vaccination at that hospital, not sure there is reason to suspend across the EU/ World based on those cases though.
Godot. wrote: » Urgh, surely not true. Tiresome, endless bureaucracy.
Mark1916 wrote: » https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1371759257004171266?s=21
stephenjmcd wrote: » About an extra 100k doses so. Pfizer are scheduled for just over 2 million doses to Ireland in Q2 out of an estimated 3.8 million. They're doing alot of the heavy lifting
