Israel aims to vaccinate 25% of population in a month; 250,000 had shots so far | The Times of Israel
Just to put it in perspective 25% is >2million
Last i heard we would take 2 months to do nursing homes !
The US and Israel bought large quantities of vaccines plus options to buy more from multiple producers not knowing which one will be working and when. The EU was sleeping though meanwhile.How do you plan for something you don't have or may never have. The vaccine, well Pfizers and Biontech they didn't even know a few months ago.
Israel was preparing for that vaccination campaign way before the newest round of elections came around - no connection hereMaking simple comparisons with other countries can be deceptive. Israel is in the middle of an election campaign and so Netanyahu will make whatever promise he needs to make. At the height of the pandemic in late September, Israel was getting close to 7,000 new covid cases per day. Even now it's getting over 3,000 per day and climbing. So there is enormous pressure on Netanyahu to get the vaccinations done asap. He's the one who has claimed that they'll get 25% of the population vaccinated by the end of January and he'll throw all caution to the wind to make that happen. However, I've no doubt that Israel will vaccinate at a faster rate that us. Israel has a population of 9 million in a country that's less than one third the size of RoI and 93% are urban (RoI is 63% urban) so getting the vaccine distributed to more people in less time is much more likely.
I'd prefer safety over speed.
Luke O'N also made the very valid point that Israel has a superb education system and a scientifically literate, clued-in and attentive population holding its officials to account. Their health officials wouldn't get away with lame excuses such as the HSE's favourite nonsensical claim that "rushing" the vaccine would be unsafe.Newstalk pat kenny with Luke O’Neill discussing Israeli success
I mentioned previously
Israel also had a nationally identity card, a massive military infrastructure and much better IT integration in every aspect of its Public administration.Luke O'N also made the very valid point that Israel has a superb education system and a scientifically literate, clued-in and attentive population holding its officials to account. Their health officials wouldn't get away with lame excuses such as the HSE's favourite nonsensical claim that "rushing" the vaccine would be unsafe.
People here don't want a national identity card or anything like that
Yep. If you aren't paying for something (social media) then you are the product, not the customer.It's interesting isn't it, because the likes of Instagram and Tesco hold vast amounts of these objectors' data. And they provide it willingly!
No, not at this early stage where virtually nobody has been vaccinated yet. At this point the challenge is getting vaccines into willing and readily available arms as fast as possible, not finding arms. Vaccinating hard-to-reach/reluctant/undocumented parts of the population will become a challenge during later stages but that's a long way off. For now they just need to get the process started.The problem is making sure everyone has been jabbed.
No, if they don't have a system in place at the start it will quickly turn into a complete mess.No, not at this early stage where virtually nobody has been vaccinated yet. At this point the challenge is getting vaccines into willing and readily available arms as fast as possible, not finding arms. Vaccinating hard-to-reach/reluctant/undocumented parts of the population will become a challenge during later stages but that's a long way off. For now they just need to get the process started.
And obviously not enough preparations were made to kick it off...No, if they don't have a system in place at the start it will quickly turn into a complete mess.
You're jumping the gun again Purple. The HSE must and will have a system in place to administer the Covid vaccines to all. Can anybody supply a source confirming that there is no system in place? Or are you just making it up?No, if they don't have a system in place at the start it will quickly turn into a complete mess.
From theYou're jumping the gun again Purple. The HSE must and will have a system in place to administer the Covid vaccines to all. Can anybody supply a source confirming that there is no system in place? Or are you just making it up?
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly said it is planned that all those working and living in Ireland's 580 nursing homes - around 70,000 people - will receive their first Covid-19 vaccine dose by the end of this month.
I note Merowig admitted going abroad for 3 weeks holiday in August although government guidelines suggested non travel. He also refused to participate in the pandemic "panic" he said was created in the press here. Now he is informing us of what is happening in Israel. He even posted a chart on the amount of people other countries were vaccinating too. He supported the reduction to Level 3 from Level 5 on 1st December when infections at 200 per day were considered too high (Yesterday 6000+infections were reported). Now he is trying to dictate what the HSE should or should not do. We live in an age of litigation and I believe the HSE is going about the vaccinating in a caring and correct way. This is something they must do and not sacrifice speed for acccuracy.Vaccines in all care homes by end of January - Donnelly
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly said it is planned that all those working and living in Ireland's 580 nursing homes - around 70,000 people - will receive their first Covid-19 vaccine dose by the end of this month.www.rte.ie
Meanwhile Israel vaccinated yesterday alone 121,114 people.