Pfz GC only have 2 x syringe filling lines, single dose so not really close to ready. Puurs in Belgium have a much bigger operation with multiple multidose vial filling lines already qualified and in operation.
Delays in rolling out vaccine
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It is very impressive but still get a nagging feeling that they have played fast and loose especially around the gaps in doses. Be interesting to see. Must be getting to numbers where we would expect to see huge drop in new hospital cases and deaths.
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It was/is reported that 490k have received their second doses, which is a small % of the entire number.
They are expecting to "see the effects in hospitals " in the middle of February.
I too have my thoughts on the delays of the second dose, but time will tell.
Yes. We constantly hear what "they will be doing" and not what they have been doing.
To be fair, by the time the vaccination teams post back the forms with who has been resulted, the post has been delivered, sorted by the mail room, delivered to the correct team, sorted by geographical location, results validated and then entered into the 'system', it can take a while.
I love the way it looks like they only thought about IT requirements when it was time to do the vaccination. They did a good job developing the Covid App and I struggle to see how setting up what is basically a reporting database is more complicated than that.
When Hospitals in Dublin don't have compatible IT systems I don't think it's a surprise that collating national data in real time is a problem.
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Pfizer-BioNTech to deliver 75m more doses during spring
BioNTech and Pfizer have said they will ramp up their coronavirus vaccine deliveries to the European Union, pledging to send up to 75 million extra doses to the bloc in the second quarter of this year.
You need to go back and review the timeline here. AZ supplied partial data in December, but only formally submitted the request for approval in January.
Perfection? Nobody is talking about perfection. Something vaguely approaching competence would be nice.
Rather than releasing information that would actually be useful the government continues to invest in an ever more nauseating series of endlessly repeating "public service" radio ads. A current favourite teaches the public that one Covid-safe way of talking to a friend involves using a phone. Another ad asks listeners to hold their breath for six seconds in order to become calmer while yet another ad informs listeners that going for a walk helps them get fresh air. The media never challenges the government over this nauseating orgy of patronising drivel, presumably because they are benefiting from these ads.
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I see tax payers money put to good use
The sad thing is there will be likely zero consequences for all the blunders...
A phenomenal UK performance when you consider that President Biden has set an ambitious target of 1,000,000 per day for the first 100 days of his administration. That's the the equivalent of just 200,000 per day in the UK, a rate three times less than the UK. Somethings not right.
Looks like von der Lyons and the commission under alot of pressure due to their mishandling of the vaccine rollout. This is a good thing because these people are not directly accountable to the electorates. However uniquely the vaccine crisis has put them squarely in the crosshairs and they don't like it one bit.