COVID-19: Vaccine and testing procedures Megathread Part 2 [Mod Warning - Post #1]

is_that_so

lbj666 wrote: »

That doesnt mean there isnt waffling and there has been plenty, latest being HSE , NIAC , CMO and the Taoiseach all seem to be slighting contradicting what the plan is.

Well, the HSE are the only ones who matter as they are running it. A lot of the contradictions are imagined. NIAC and HSE agree, CMO probably does too and the Taoiseach as a politician is most likely to be waffling.

cameramonkey

cameramonkey wrote: »

https://twitter.com/peterdonaghy/status/1357358077780119554



COVID-19 vaccine NI yesterday, 17,064 first doses administered (0.91% of the population).




LATEST #COVID19 VACCINE UPDATE FOR NI: 289,274 vaccines have been administered, of which 263,735 were first doses and 25,539 were second doses.

So more people here have got the second dose than in the North even though they started weeks ahead of us

Stark

In the UK they're spreading the doses 3 months apart so they can give more people their first dose sooner.

brickster69

brickster69 wrote: »

When is the next delivery of those vaccines due ?

No one knows do they ?

is_that_so

brickster69 wrote: »

No one knows do they ?

AFAIK Pfizer is weekly and Moderna may be the same. AZ will be here next week, then who knows after that.

Cole

Yevon wrote: »

https://twitter.com/charliebird49/status/1357347199332405253?s=19

Genuinely curious as to what he thinks the mess up on roll out has been? We have administered almost every vaccine we have received apart from a small buffer which is being maintained as a precaution.

Ah Charlie Bird. No better man to find the negativity in anything Covid related and whinge incessantly about it...like his 'lock down' whinge diary he did for the Brendan O'Connor radio show last year. He needs to find a hobby in his retirement.

brickster69

Date Total Vaccines Given
Dec-31 1,800
Jan-04 4,000
Jan-07 15,314
Jan-10 40,000

45K second jabs given

Jan-13 77,303 - 32K due before 10/2
Jan-17 94,000 - 17K 14/2
Jan-20 121,900 - 36K 21/2
Jan-24 143,000
Jan-27 161,500
Jan-31 199,800
Feb-3 219,200

Stark

Yevon wrote: »

https://twitter.com/charliebird49/status/1357347199332405253?s=19

Genuinely curious as to what he thinks the mess up on roll out has been? We have administered almost every vaccine we have received apart from a small buffer which is being maintained as a precaution.

Priority list absolutist maybe?

As long as all the vaccines we have end up in peoples' arms I'm happy for a "best effort" approach to be applied. As you go further down the list you find people who tend to spread the virus more so where you lose out on reducing deaths/hospitalisations, you gain on reducing transmission. So not the end of the world if people move a couple of spaces up in the AZ queue.

Amirani

Yevon wrote: »

https://twitter.com/charliebird49/status/1357347199332405253?s=19

Genuinely curious as to what he thinks the mess up on roll out has been? We have administered almost every vaccine we have received apart from a small buffer which is being maintained as a precaution.

Charlie Bird isn't the most insightful sort. Was never that sort of journalist.

brickster69

https://twitter.com/paulcolgan/status/1357058957735559175

is_that_so

brickster69 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/paulcolgan/status/1357058957735559175

I love the drama!

"In response to a query this evening ..."

This is not news BTW. It's more or less been that way since January.

landofthetree

https://twitter.com/segal_eran/status/1357377934676344842

ACitizenErased

landofthetree wrote: »

https://twitter.com/segal_eran/status/1357377934676344842

Realistically we should see a significant reduction in mortality in Israel soon.

Cole

is_that_so wrote: »

I love the drama!

"In response to a query this evening ..."

This is not news BTW. It's more or less been that way since January.

There's only so much you can squeeze of out a story. They're all fighting over the scraps to make a story out of nothing very much.

is_that_so

Cole wrote: »

There's only so much you can squeeze of out a story. They're all fighting over the scraps to make a story out of nothing very much.

Yeah, they are also transposing the "EU mess" thing here when we are one of the best in terms of vaccinations to date. We look to have an actual plan.

frozen3

UK absolutely killing it

One in five adults vaccinated

45 days to 10%
13 days to 20%

Vaccinating at a rate of 1% a day right now

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-another-915-die-with-coronavirus-in-uk-as-one-in-five-adults-has-first-vaccine-dose-12208600

Vicxas

frozen3 wrote: »

UK absolutely killing it

One in five adults vaccinated

45 days to 10%
13 days to 20%

Vaccinating at a rate of 1% a day right now

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-another-915-die-with-coronavirus-in-uk-as-one-in-five-adults-has-first-vaccine-dose-12208600

1/6th of the way for them, great news.

is_that_so

Vicxas wrote: »

1/6th of the way for them, great news.

On first shots!

Bleating Lamb

Apologies if this has been asked before but is there any rough timescale on when Over -70’s living at home will be given the vaccine?....and will it be given by their GP or in another location?
Will it be the case that people Over -80 living at home will get it before people Over -70 living at home for example?

Thanks for any replies.

is_that_so

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Apologies if this has been asked before but is there any rough timescale on when Over -70’s living at home will be given the vaccine?....and will it be given by their GP or in another location?
Will it be the case that people Over -80 living at home will get it before people Over -70 living at home for example?

Thanks for any replies.

Group 3 to start from Feb 15 with over 85s. Group 3 in total has about 400K so it could be a few weeks. I'd say check with the GP about arrangements.

Deeper Blue

Regardless of people's thoughts on the vaccines, the fact that 105 million have already been given out for a novel disease which originated just over a year ago is staggering

hynesie08

Fair play to the uk, and I don't want to be that guy, but how ****ed are they if there's a production delay in the next while? Even just a couple of weeks?

AdamD

is_that_so wrote: »

On first shots!

It looks like its becoming more and more clear that first shots will do the job.

is_that_so

AdamD wrote: »

It looks like its becoming more and more clear that first shots will do the job.

Not sure that will be clear unless they are checking. They still have a plan for the second shot anyway.

Le Bruise

El Sueño wrote: »

Regardless of people's thoughts on the vaccines, the fact that 105 million have already been given out for a novel disease which originated just over a year ago is staggering

If you’ve ever played ‘plague Inc’ on your phone, this is usually around the moment you realise your virus has lost!:)

Hmmzis

frozen3 wrote: »

Thanks Hmmzis

Most of that is way over my head, but good read here from experts in the field on that UK E484K strain that might interest you

http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-document-from-phe-about-the-b-1-1-7-variant-including-reference-to-detection-of-the-e484k-mutation-in-some-b-1-1-7-genomes/?cli_action=1612452197.064

This paper and the references in it would explain this much better than I ever could:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.02.429486v1.full.pdf+html

JacksonHeightsOwn

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Apologies if this has been asked before but is there any rough timescale on when Over -70’s living at home will be given the vaccine?....and will it be given by their GP or in another location?
Will it be the case that people Over -80 living at home will get it before people Over -70 living at home for example?

Thanks for any replies.

hopefully soon, my next door neighbours are in the mid 70's, and god love them they've barely left their house in the past year.

Its crap for the average person, but giving up a year of your life, when dare i say, there's not much of it left must be terrible, added of course to the fear of catching the fecking virus to....

snowcat

chrisbonnie wrote: »

hopefully soon, my next door neighbours are in the mid 70's, and god love them they've barely left their house in the past year.

Its crap for the average person, but giving up a year of your life, when dare i say, there's not much of it left must be terrible, added of course to the fear of catching the fecking virus to....

My next door neighbours in their late 70's 80's have never did the lockdown thing even when we were all locked up in March. Still going strong. Hopefully they last the last leg.

funnydoggy

Won't be long before we see early signs of the vaccine working , am I right?

Edit : ran some quick arithmetic in my head.. Will be a while yet I'd say!

Goldengirl

frozen3 wrote: »

UK absolutely killing it

One in five adults vaccinated

45 days to 10%
13 days to 20%

Vaccinating at a rate of 1% a day right now

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-another-915-die-with-coronavirus-in-uk-as-one-in-five-adults-has-first-vaccine-dose-12208600

That's great ..because they need to ..badly .