Russman wrote: » 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.
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
ACitizenErased wrote: » Pfizer storage changed: In addition to the new manufacturing facility for this vaccine, the CHMP has also given a positive opinion to allow transportation and storage of vials of this vaccine at temperatures between -25 to -15˚C (i.e. the temperature of standard pharmaceutical freezers) for a one-off period of two weeks. This is an alternative to the long-term storage of the vials at a temperature between -90 to -60˚C in special freezers. It is expected to facilitate the rapid roll-out and distribution of the vaccine in the EU by reducing the need for ultra-low temperature cold storage conditions throughout the supply chain.
JDD wrote: » Look, you're right. You can't blame the entire British public for the choices of their government, or how the vaccine roll out is being covered in the newspapers. Lets put who said what and who agreed what in what contract aside for one minute (because I haven't read the contracts so I'm not sure who should get priority)... If the EU are producing vaccines in their factories and exporting a portion of them to the UK and the US, And the UK and US are far ahead of the EU in terms of supply they are receiving - from both domestic factories and imports, And the UK and US are not exporting any of their domestically made vaccines to the EU, then that's kind of c**tish behaviour. You can say "well that's how the world works sonny - make sure you get better lawyers next time", or "well you should have individually negotiated for your own vaccines at a higher price like the UK did, then AZ would have prioritised you like they have with the UK" and fair enough if that's your position. I just don't find it very ethical or moral, especially in circumstances where 40 year olds are being vaccinated in the UK and US, whereas medically vulnerable people are still waiting for theirs in the EU. You can see why the EU will, ultimately, block exports.
charlie14 wrote: » I do not get what relevance that 500,000 figure from Kingston Mills has .It`s based on three times more being immune than those confirmed as having been infected. It may possibly reduce the number of new cases overall, but it`s not much use to those that have been infected and not confirmed, unless they get an antibody test. I may be missing something, but to me at least, to ensure herd immunity it would be a figure best ignored and just vaccinate everyone who hasn`t tested positive for the virus.
cameramonkey wrote: » https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9405703/Covid-survivors-three-times-antibody-response-single-dose-vaccine-study-finds.html I suppose it's early days but an interesting discovery.
RavenBea17b wrote: » Wonder why the approval for usual pharma freezers took quite so long, sure I read something back weeks ago, that it was proven to be ok.... I may be mistaken. Good news Friday Hooray.
irishlad. wrote: » Cohort 3, 2nd doses beginning to ramp uphttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cUZy6AMCwuA2zhtRuKK7cqMVgmhdDsGsZrFWJTkw9DY/edit#gid=1219026690
stephenjmcd wrote: » Small insight into the defense forces rolehttps://twitter.com/defenceforces/status/1375474441325584392?s=20
1huge1 wrote: » Keep the good news rolling everyone, I really need it today!
IRISHSPORTSGUY wrote: » What's the vaccination schedule for next week?
plodder wrote: » I read on another thread that we are still stockpiling the second doses instead of getting them into as many people as possible. I thought they were only going to do this for a couple of weeks. Does it explain why we are falling so far down the EU table?
irishlad. wrote: » https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1375093609012338690
embraer170 wrote: » My 75 year old mom was told end of April. My father (86) at the same GP already got his second dose. Very frustrating.
Apogee wrote: » One thing to consider with charts that use doses/total population. Ireland has a higher population under 18 relative to other countries in EU. If you use doses/vaccinatable population, it drives our relative performance up.
ACitizenErased wrote: » Fergal Bowers getting into the habit of posting fake news. Should really research the details before he posts tweets trying to stir ****.
plodder wrote: » At the start though we were just behind Denmark in 3rd or 4th on that chart. Denmark is still in the same place, but we have dropped.
