Delays in rolling out vaccine

If there is so much sputnik available for the EU why are so few Russians vaccinated. I doubt any real quantities are there until later in the year when not needed.
 
tomdublin said:
Sputnik V has applied for EMA authorization and experts say they are very likely to get it. Sputnik can also be delivered on short notice. Ireland could prepare for this by ordering these vaccines now so it's ready to go if and when EMA approval is forthcoming but the gov is refusing flat out.
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Funny how we have people clammering to get their hands on this vaccine when Russia can't even vaccinate their own population. Even the Russians are reluctant to take it never mind the rubbish about all these supplies ready to be shipped to the rest of the world.

Vaccines are going to be used for geo political reasons. Russia will do it. China will do it. The US will do it. Britain will do it. The EU will do it. Even todays story about the UK giving Ireland 3.7m doses smacks of political games. Here are the 3.7 doses. Now about the Northern Ireland protocol.........
 
Sunny said:
Funny how we have people clammering to get their hands on this vaccine when Russia can't even vaccinate their own population. Even the Russians are reluctant to take it never mind the rubbish about all these supplies ready to be shipped to the rest of the world.

Vaccines are going to be used for geo political reasons. Russia will do it. China will do it. The US will do it. Britain will do it. The EU will do it. Even todays story about the UK giving Ireland 3.7m doses smacks of political games. Here are the 3.7 doses. Now about the Northern Ireland protocol.........
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If it gets approved by the EMA (or the FDA, British, Canadians, Swiss, Japanese, Australians, South Koreans etc.) it's safe enough for me. Nobody should be forced to take it, just have the option.
 
Sunny said:
Vaccines are going to be used for geo political reasons. Russia will do it. China will do it. The US will do it. Britain will do it. The EU will do it. Even todays story about the UK giving Ireland 3.7m doses smacks of political games. Here are the 3.7 doses. Now about the Northern Ireland protocol.........
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Yes I agree vaccines and their rollout are the most important political event in decades bigger than brexit and the government and the HSE are like a rabbit stuck in the headlights. They are afraid to play this for their own benefit or to foresee that this is what is going to happen. The fact is that the British have put these 3.7 m doses into play, the next move needs to come from Michael Martin, Sinn Fein can see this as an easy win for them, I heard Mary Lou saying that we should take the British offer and worry about the EU reaction later on. With the vaccine rollout in a shambles especially after the weekend with many older people desperately waiting for their vaccines Michael Martin has to be seen to be taking this offer seriously. The government needs to start taking risks now, they need to put nphet back in the backseat and take control of the situation themselves. Scaremongering and telling people that summer is cancelled is no longer acceptable
 
odyssey06 said:
If there is so much sputnik available for the EU why are so few Russians vaccinated. I doubt any real quantities are there until later in the year when not needed.
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Russia only began mass vaccination this year but rolled it out abroad last summer, e.g. India.
 
putin only got vaccinated last tuesday off camera, so its unknown if he actually got it ,there is also a story going around that if he had got it, then it was likely a western vaccine not a russian one
 
I have work colleagues in Hong Kong - they are very skeptical of the Chinese vaccine. They claim the pictures of the HK leaders getting vaccinated actually were getting the Pfizer jab.

The problem with regimes that are less than transparent is that there is little trust when it comes to things like vaccines
 
www.timesofisrael.com

Israeli-made oral COVID vaccine found to generate antibodies in pigs

Jerusalem-based scientist expects approval for humans within 6 months, says advance could simplify vaccination drives and even allow home vaccination using XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX sent by mail
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Nice one - hope it works out fine in later trials as well
Would be a game changer in regards to storage. I doubt though it will be ever mailed by post as there is no documentation that it was administered.
 
Several states and cities in Germany stopped vaccinating with Astrazeneca for everyone below 60 years of age. Including here in the list of institutions who stopped is the Charite in Berlin - one of Europe's best hospitals.
Germany has right now a total of 31 cases of sinus venous thrombosis - in 19 cases with thrombocytopenia - 9 deaths so far.
All cases were in the age group 20 - 63. Majority are women but also two men.
 
I was only half listening to the Irish Times European Correspondent Naomi O’Leary but I think the action being taken is just to add it to the list of side effects.
So it’ll have a standard entry such as:
1 in 1,000,000 users may suffer thrombocytopenia
1 in 10,000,000 users may die from thrombocytopenia

And the carry on as normal.
 
Merowig said:
Several states and cities in Germany stopped vaccinating with Astrazeneca for everyone below 60 years of age. Including here in the list of institutions who stopped is the Charite in Berlin - one of Europe's best hospitals.
Germany has right now a total of 31 cases of sinus venous thrombosis - in 19 cases with thrombocytopenia - 9 deaths so far.
All cases were in the age group 20 - 63. Majority are women but also two men.
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I wonder if it should only be given to men. Seems to be a pattern of higher risk with women under X.
 
Paul O Mahoney said:
Are you trying to start a rumble? Even if there was good medical evidence to support this there'll be a few who will see it differently.
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I think if that's where the data leads, then it should be considered as a rollout option... but hopefully the analysis can get to the bottom of it and identify a pattern (people on medication X or previously had disease Y).
 
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