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ACitizenErased wrote: »

it's well documented that saturday is the last day of the rollout week and is built for leftovers, sunday is when deliveries arrive and monday is when they're delivered. no clue why this has to be repeated every time :rolleyes:

Wouldn’t that make Sunday the last day of the rollout week?

Mardyke wrote: »

I know I shouldn't, but.....

Sunday is when deliveries arrive where?
And what's the difference in the Monday deliveries?

I wouldn't be hiring you for any sort of efficient supply chain gig anyway.... Holy shi.t

Sundays they arrive at the cold chain centre in Dublin. Monday they are dispatched to MVCs, GPs etc. Bulk of vaccinations then begin on Tuesday. That's it in basic terms, it's better explained in the vaccine thread

I presume that 4.5 day vaccine week (Tues-Fri + leftovers on Saturday) is only because of supply constraints atm?

Fair enough then

Stark wrote: »

Father registered Saturday morning, getting his vaccine Wednesday morning in City Hall.

My father is the same! He is delighted - my Mother, on the other hand, is up the walls with fear because he is getting astrazeneca.

My Dad (68) is getting his first dose on Thursday in City Hall - huge relief! Still no word on my mother (66) though.

20/04 Covid-19: 390 additional cases, 11 further deaths

9 cases in Cork

my god India not in a good place from latest news reports - scary !

okedoke wrote: »

I presume that 4.5 day vaccine week (Tues-Fri + leftovers on Saturday) is only because of supply constraints atm?

On the face of things (not with standing the delay in reports) that does not appear to be the case. On April 1st Ireland had 350,000 more vaccines in storage then administered. Upto April 18th (last day of information we have) we had administered, in total, 340,000 vaccines in the month of April. We were told at the end of March supply’s would ramp up significantly circa 800,000 in the month of April in total. So technically every Vaccine that has been delivered this month is not after getting administered from the projected 800,000. Whilst issues around supply obviously occur, we certainly aren’t administering them any where near as quickly as we could be. Talking about holding them back for second doses etc is just spin to save face. We were promised capacity to do 250,000 jabs a week not including the additional doses Pfizer promised the EU for delivery in April. The next vaccine delivery update will be very interesting unless we’ve knocked it out of the park the last 2 days on the administration of vaccines id be expecting to see big numbers of vaccines in storage.

https://twitter.com/riochtconor2/status/1384912792462020610?s=21


Of the 187 deaths reported this month, 48 occurred in April - 26%.

I'm from North Cork and our vaccine center is Mallow.
People aged between 65 and and 69 are being told they'll be waiting a few weeks before they'll get an appointment.

* Others may be different tough.

Chuck Noland wrote: »

With the news Pfizer are soon to vaccinate their staff and family (and J&J have a similar plan) I’m wondering who will be administering the vaccines considering the hoops CPL & HSE are making people jump through to work in MVC’s? Is their a private company they can hire to do it? Or will they need assistance from the HSE and “hire” a MVC to carry it out?

I’ve no issues with Pfizer or J&J doing this as it’s not affecting the projected numbers due to the EU but curious as to who will carry out the jabs?

Most big pharma companies have lots of trained medical personal on their books.

Factories have a nurse in part time doing annual Medical’s for staff. And a doctor that might do a day a week reviewing tests and results for all staff, so presumably the nurse will.

Pfizer are doing all their vaccinations in some site in Dublin currently. There may have been local rollout previously.

Jnj are not currently offering their staff vaccines.

leahyl wrote: »

I know of somone working in Pfizer and pretty sure they got their vaccine a few months ago...

Yea, all staff and contractors on site got done a while back

I know a retired Pfizer employee who had to drive to Grangecastle in Dublin Tuesday to get done. I think they're offering anyone and everyone tbh.