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COVID-19: Vaccine and testing procedures Megathread Part 3 - Read OP

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  • #6722
    Azatadine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,607 ✭✭✭Azatadine


    This is good. Note the SA variant reference too.

    https://twitter.com/laoneill111/status/1375357516754862080?s=19


  • #6723
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,360 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    https://twitter.com/COVID19DataIE/status/1375397621905391617?s=20

    That's what you like to see.


  • #6724
    Fitz*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,662 ✭✭✭✭Fitz*


    Eventually, a day with some decent-ish numbers. Which while being excellent, it is still a step in the right direction.

    Is that our highest daily number of doses administered?


  • #6725
    Apogee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,899 ✭✭✭Apogee


    Tue 23rd - 18751 administered. Just gone over 700,000 total doses administered.
    548169.jpg


  • #6726
    Apogee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,899 ✭✭✭Apogee


    Fitz* wrote: »
    Eventually, a day with some decent-ish numbers. Which while being excellent, it is still a step in the right direction.

    Is that our highest daily number of doses administered?

    Not quite (though it will likely be updated).


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  • #6727
    Amirani
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,562 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    washman3 wrote: »
    No, this is not a joke. 6 SECOND doses were administered last Sunday.
    That's the official figure from Fergal Bowers.

    Fergal Bowers doesn't work for the Department of Health or the HSE, so him saying something doesn't make it the official figure.

    The HSE have already said that the number on the dashboard is not accurate. You should stop treating Fergal Bowers as an official source of health data.


  • #6728
    Bubbaclaus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,460 ✭✭✭Bubbaclaus


    Amirani wrote: »
    Fergal Bowers doesn't work for the Department of Health or the HSE, so him saying something doesn't make it the official figure.

    The HSE have already said that the number on the dashboard is not accurate. You should stop treating Fergal Bowers as an official source of health data.

    I've lost an awful lot of respect for the journalistic ability of Bowers in recent months. Seems to tweet a lot of clearly inaccurate information as fact and clearly without any sense checking.


  • #6729
    funnydoggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,065 ✭✭✭funnydoggy


    washman3 wrote: »
    Are you annoyed that he's telling the truth or what.?
    Ireland administered a grand total of 6, yes 6, second doses last Sunday.
    Meanwhile the UK are administering an average of 27 per second...!!!
    And the USA administered 4.5 MILLION last Friday.
    Just saying.....;)


    This aged well.


  • #6730
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Apogee wrote: »
    Tue 23rd - 18751 administered. Just gone over 700,000 total doses administered.
    548169.jpg
    If the promised AZ stock of 160K arrive we should break the 1m barrier in first shots in the next week or so.


  • #6731
    crossman47
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,606 ✭✭✭crossman47


    is_that_so wrote: »
    If the promised AZ stock of 160K arrive we should break the 1m barrier in first shots in the next week or so.

    And to that we can add those who got the virus as also being immune - possibly up to 500,000 per Kingston Mills


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  • #6732
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,527 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    is_that_so wrote: »
    If the promised AZ stock of 160K arrive we should break the 1m barrier in first shots in the next week or so.

    We had 500k first shots up to Tuesday. You think we'll get another 500k done in the next week?


  • #6733
    dominatinMC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,153 ✭✭✭dominatinMC


    Bubbaclaus wrote: »
    I've lost an awful lot of respect for the journalistic ability of Bowers in recent months. Seems to tweet a lot of clearly inaccurate information as fact and clearly without any sense checking.
    To be fair, you could insert any journalists name in there for Bowers, and the statement would still be valid. If nothing else, this pandemic has been an eye opener on journalistic standards in the country.


  • #6734
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,787 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    dominatinMC wrote: »
    To be fair, you could insert any journalists name in there for Bowers, and the statement would still be valid. If nothing else, this pandemic has been an eye opener on journalistic standards in the country.

    Bowers had been the best. I’d say he’s among the worst at the moment. Constantly stirring controversy.


  • #6735
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,521 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    Bowers had been the best. I’d say he’s among the worst at the moment. Constantly stirring controversy.

    He was very good, I wonder if he got exasperated at asking HSE for reliable vaccination figures or something and was told check the dashboard. And so he did to be stubborn about it.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #6736
    [Deleted User]
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    crossman47 wrote: »
    And to that we can add those who got the virus as also being immune - possibly up to 500,000 per Kingston Mills

    Definitely not that simple, many who would have also gotten the virus have been vaccinated too, so that would be double counting.


  • #6737
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    We had 500k first shots up to Tuesday. You think we'll get another 500k done in the next week?
    I said in the next week or so as we don't know when they will arrive. I'm using the total 700K, which I should have stated more correctly, but yes I expect an overall 1m total to be reached quickly if those supplies arrive.


  • #6738
    funnydoggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,065 ✭✭✭funnydoggy


    Once COVID is over in Ireland, people won't be tuning into RTÉ nearly as much. They're riding the gravy train for as long as possible, desperately trying to stay relevant.


  • #6739
    Skyfloater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭Skyfloater


    What's the story with J&J? Has it been given the ok either in the EU or the USA?
    Thanks.


  • #6740
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 10,049 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Skyfloater wrote: »
    What's the story with J&J? Has it been given the ok either in the EU or the USA?
    Thanks.

    Both


  • #6741
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    Bowers had been the best. I’d say he’s among the worst at the moment. Constantly stirring controversy.

    His blogs were reasonable in tone that's about it. Not that hard to do. He's made some truly awful gaffes since this whole thing began. Some can be excused but what I find more concerning is that he doesn't seem to retract anything. It's someone else's fault when he relays incorrect information.

    I'm kind of stunned no major media outlet didn't try to get science journalists with backgrounds in a scientific discipline and media. The current crop are so far out of their depth at times it's a little depressing.


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  • #6742
    cameramonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    crossman47 wrote: »
    And to that we can add those who got the virus as also being immune - possibly up to 500,000 per Kingston Mills


    A seroprevalence study carried out last year showed rates in the community 3 times higher those that detected through the surveillance of notified cases. That was in the age group 12 to 69. Up to yesterday, there have been 232,758 notified cases here so if we multiply by 3 we get just short of 700000 people who could have had covid. So we may have 700000 with some sort of immunity from vaccinations and another 700000 from already being exposed means we are getting close to 1.4 million. Of course, some who have had covid have also been vaccinated.


  • #6743
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,787 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    AstraZeneca's Halix plant has been approved by the EMA


  • #6744
    Micky 32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,628 ✭✭✭Micky 32


    My parents still on schedule to getting their jabs today. Also their next door neighbours ( same age bracket) got theirs yesterday. A few people i know parents are also getting theirs today. No shortage of jabs around my area anyway.


  • #6745
    Wolf359f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,566 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    AstraZeneca's Halix plant has been approved by the EMA

    That was quick. With the news also that no AZ will leave the EU until AZ catch up, I wonder will we see a substantial increase in AZ deliveries over the next few weeks? Something more than 9k would be nice lol


  • #6746
    Vicxas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,629 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    Wonder how quick the factory will be brought online or is it ready now and just waited for approval


  • #6747
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,201 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Vicxas wrote: »
    Wonder how quick the factory will be brought online or is it ready now and just waited for approval

    Ready and possibly ~30m doses already made in a warehouse in Italy.


  • #6748
    PhoenixParker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,682 ✭✭✭PhoenixParker


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    AstraZeneca's Halix plant has been approved by the EMA

    Best news I've heard in weeks.


  • #6749
    IRISHSPORTSGUY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,276 ✭✭✭IRISHSPORTSGUY


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    AstraZeneca's Halix plant has been approved by the EMA

    Pfizer's Marburg factory approved too and a Moderna production line

    https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/increase-vaccine-manufacturing-capacity-supply-covid-19-vaccines-astrazeneca-biontechpfizer-moderna


  • #6750
    Paul Tergat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,801 ✭✭✭✭Paul Tergat


    IRISHSPORTSGUY wrote: »
    Pfizer's Marburg factory approved too and a Moderna production line

    https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/increase-vaccine-manufacturing-capacity-supply-covid-19-vaccines-astrazeneca-biontechpfizer-moderna

    Assume any EU capacity increase here is already factored into planned delivery numbers?


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  • #6751
    Russman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Russman


    Micky 32 wrote: »
    My parents still on schedule to getting their jabs today. Also their next door neighbours ( same age bracket) got theirs yesterday. A few people i know parents are also getting theirs today. No shortage of jabs around my area anyway.

    Excellent to hear good news stories about people we actually know rather than just a "number" vaccinated. Somehow makes it more real.

    My own father's jab was cancelled yesterday, GP didn't get enough doses delivered, and said it could be another two weeks. He's philosophical enough about it, but still, tinged with disappointment at the same time.


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