Vaccine Megathread - See OP for threadbans

Living Off The Splash wrote: »

Was there an underlying health reason that she received her vaccine aged 35? Scary that there were 6 other people there with the same problem...were they all female?

She is a health care worker. Never had issues. She rang her doc this morning, he said it's very suspicious. He advised her to think very carefully before accepting 2nd dose. 5 female 1 male

acer911 wrote: »

How do you get 14k? Is it not 8.3k?

It was revised up, the previous day's numbers had changed in the reporting.

Kevint30 wrote: »

She is a health care worker. Never had issues. She rang her doc this morning, he said it's very suspicious. He advised her to think very carefully before accepting 2nd dose. 5 female 1 male

That doc doesn't appear to be as clued in as he should be. Many posters above made the point DVT is not the issue with AZ at all.

My early optimism in the vaccine roll out is definitely starting to wane. Even taking out the AZ shortfall announcement we have close to 350k vaccines currently in fridges according to the Belgian delivery numbers. We are also due a big delivery of Pfizer early this week. Yes some are required for second doses such as Moderna but we are now clearly in a position where we are not administering supply in the week that we get it or anywhere close. It looks like we will substantially miss our April target and It would be great if some journalists could ask the relevant questions as to why.

stephenjmcd wrote: »

See this is going to be the problem with looking at daily numbers. The data is never final...


..All that matters at this stage is the weekly number in my opinion, it gives a better picture.

It's exciting. We know this now with regards to the case numbers, and now we're applying it to the vaccine numbers

If I read that correctly, the vaccine was given in February, but dvt has been found now. I understood that the many if not all observed clots occurred, within 5-10 days of jab, plus treatment is different when platelet check required (different thinning med if I recall). I hope she is on the mend. Scary of course and concern for your loved one

Charles Babbage wrote: »

You'd almost have sympathy for the HSE, The regulators only allowed AZ be used for over 60s, so they registered the 0ver 65s and now AZ won't supply enough to do these in any sort of rapid way. If they allocate any of the additional Pfizer next week to this group then they'll may end eventually with AZ and nobody to give it to. But there would be poor optics if they opened the 55-60 cohort before there has been a reasonable effort at the over 60s, so who do they use the additional Pfizer for?

Give it to cohorts 4 and 7 as planned?

Deathofcool wrote: »

My early optimism in the vaccine roll out is definitely starting to wane. Even taking out the AZ shortfall announcement we have close to 350k vaccines currently in fridges according to the Belgian delivery numbers. We are also due a big delivery of Pfizer early this week. Yes some are required for second doses such as Moderna but we are now clearly in a position where we are not administering supply in the week that we get it or anywhere close. It looks like we will substantially miss our April target and It would be great if some journalists could ask the relevant questions as to why.

The HSE love the vaccine shortages as it hides their incompetence.

My wife is a registered nurse with a post grad degree in oncology. She hasn’t gone back after maternity leave but offered to join the vaccination team. The HSE use cpl for hiring, the wanted to validate her leaving cert results, the parchment from trinity with her nursing degree or the parchment from ucd with her post graduate degree or a reference from the director of nursing wasn’t sufficient. Honestly you could make up how incompetent they are.

Then we have the beacon vaccination centre closed. That has the capacity to deliver more than 1000 jabs a day, I don’t condone their previous actions, but it’s a pandemic we need them delivering those shots.

Deathofcool wrote: »

My early optimism in the vaccine roll out is definitely starting to wane. Even taking out the AZ shortfall announcement we have close to 350k vaccines currently in fridges according to the Belgian delivery numbers. We are also due a big delivery of Pfizer early this week. Yes some are required for second doses such as Moderna but we are now clearly in a position where we are not administering supply in the week that we get it or anywhere close. It looks like we will substantially miss our April target and It would be great if some journalists could ask the relevant questions as to why.

Yes the faith in the rollout across the board from everyone is waining. Supply issues etc aside we have large volumes of vaccines in storage rather then in arms and the numbers administered at weekends are terrible. Talks of just using up left over vaccines is just spin and trying to save face. Were along way off the 250,000 per week we were told we could do.

Valhallapt wrote: »

The HSE love the vaccine shortages as it hides their incompetence.

My wife is a registered nurse with a post grad degree in oncology. She hasn’t gone back after maternity leave but offered to join the vaccination team. The HSE use cpl for hiring, the wanted to validate her leaving cert results, the parchment from trinity with her nursing degree or the parchment from ucd with her post graduate degree or a reference from the director of nursing wasn’t sufficient. Honestly you could make up how incompetent they are.

Then we have the beacon vaccination centre closed. That has the capacity to deliver more than 1000 jabs a day, I don’t condone their previous actions, but it’s a pandemic we need them delivering those shots.

Your wife, as a registered nurse, will know that a lot of public service positions will require a leaving certificate as part of their qualifications even if they have many years of experience or further degrees, diplomas and certificates that show they can do the job.

Presuming your wife is a private nurse?

Chuck Noland wrote: »

Yes the faith in the rollout across the board from everyone is waining. Supply issues etc aside we have large volumes of vaccines in storage rather then in arms and the numbers administered at weekends are terrible. Talks of just using up left over vaccines is just spin and trying to save face. Were along way off the 250,000 per week we were told we could do.

We're still getting 95% of available vaccines into arms week on week, those in storage are either second shots or held up due to other issues (various AstraZeneca debacles and now J&J on pause).

If you want to be fair it's worth checking on how Pfizer rollout is going to get an idea of the efficiency of the rollout for the parts we control.

edit: or, how should I put it, it's Wednesday and the daily numbers haven't been released and the loonies are out seething and throwing temper tantrums about being in a pandemic and there's no urgency. This subsides by Saturday/Sunday and another week and cycle begins.

astrofool wrote: »

We're still getting 95% of available vaccines into arms week on week, those in storage are either second shots or held up due to other issues (various AstraZeneca debacles and now J&J on pause).

If you want to be fair it's worth checking on how Pfizer rollout is going to get an idea of the efficiency of the rollout for the parts we control.

edit: or, how should I put it, it's Wednesday and the daily numbers haven't been released and the loonies are out seething and throwing temper tantrums about being in a pandemic and there's no urgency. This subsides by Saturday/Sunday and another week and cycle begins.

We seem to be lagging behind now https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=population&Metric=People+vaccinated&Interval=Cumulative&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false&country=FRA~DEU~IRL

My Dad (67) immunocompromised (takes Humira for his arthritis) got the Pfizer vaccine from his GP this morning, I'm delighted (after originally having his MVC appointment a week and a half ago cancelled).

Charles Babbage wrote: »

You'd almost have sympathy for the HSE, The regulators only allowed AZ be used for over 60s, so they registered the 0ver 65s and now AZ won't supply enough to do these in any sort of rapid way. If they allocate any of the additional Pfizer next week to this group then they'll may end eventually with AZ and nobody to give it to. But there would be poor optics if they opened the 55-60 cohort before there has been a reasonable effort at the over 60s, so who do they use the additional Pfizer for?

I suspect J&J will be back in use soon at a minimum for the over 60s. So that will take some pressure off. Maybe the 60-69 group will get a mix of AZ and J&J.

Pablo Escobar wrote: »

Would that not be just wasting the AZ shot? Surely, the J&J would be give as 1st and only doses?

I assume he means that the age cohort of 60-69 as a whole will get a mixture of the two, not individual people.