Delays in rolling out vaccine

we have 10,000 doses now which will be used up by nurses and doctors who have given everything to help contain this virus since last March , some even their lives.
All the more reason why we should have treble the amount of doses so we can quickly protect these people.
 
You advocate taking away personal rights by legislating?
Yes I agree people have a right not to get a vaccine, but if they "consent" to receive the vaccine then they can't bring litigation down the road to sue the government, thats the bit that should have been ironed out before now. If businesses can be forced to close without full compensation and that is ok, whats the big problem with them forcing people to give up the right to sue for the greater good of widespread vaccination. If it is not an issue for other countries, why is it an issue here?
 
Isn't Johnson & Johnson and Merck working on a one dose vaccine with Johnson and Johnson almost ready to roll theirs out?
Johnson Johnson have just started phase 3 trials with interim data from end of January start of February, long way to go for J&J , Merck their own estimates indicate summer at the earliest.
 
There are 70,000 staff and residents. There has to be 3 weeks between first and 2nd shot. They need 140,000 vaccinations to do this.
When the Government tells us that we have received 10,000 vaccines, is that 5000 of two doses or 10,000 of two doses?
 
An interesting article here about who is getting what. Can we not source some of our own extra vaccines?
Not if we want access to the EU ordered vaccines. So, we could negotiate our own price, pay double, and wait another year.

Part of the idea of the EU setting up a single procurement process for these vaccines was to stop EU nations competing with each other to get it first.

When the Government tells us that we have received 10,000 vaccines, is that 5000 of two doses or 10,000 of two doses?
enough for 5,000 x 2 shots.
 
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