Vaccine Megathread No 2 - Read OP before posting

Is North Dublin one of the slowest for vaccinations? I thought I read that somewhere a week or two ago but I could be mistaken.

You will only receive the vaccine that was mentioned in your text (Pfizer) and cannot receive a different one. If I were you, I would go for it though....you'll be fully vaccinated within four weeks.

Adults only. At the time the groups were phased there was no EMA auth to give it to children at all for starters.

Paul's figure I suspect is based on percentage of adult population.

World data would then be based on percentage of full population.

59,090 done yesterday.

https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/vaccination-programme-dashboard-as-of-21-july-2021.pdf

This is getting ridiculous - who do you think is at more health risk from this virus - two people of normal health, one aged 45 and the other 65??

The plain fact of the matter is that there were people in their 40s fully vaccinated when I in my 60s caught Covid and was only partially vaccinated. Yes, that one AZ first dose vaccine likely saved me from the worst effects of the virus but I still have several ongoing symptoms.

It's not the HSEs fault that I caught Covid. But it is a demonstrable failure of their vaccination strategy that I was left only partially vaccinated till July, whilst at the same time they were double jabbing people decades younger.

The HSE played a type Russian Roulette with peoples health with this strategy. Yes it was a risk and may have worked out for the best for most but clearly some were not going to be protected as well as they could have been.

Yep 4 weeks

https://www2.hse.ie/screening-and-vaccinations/covid-19-vaccine/moderna/

Thanks, wanted to reconfirm as hse isn't the best for updating information.

He was hoping to get Pfizer all along so this threw him, had no research done. Too late to look for a new appointment on the portal.

Anyone know where I can get a plastic holder for my vaccination card?

IT article states: “Negotiations on extra vaccine purchases from other EU countries, like Romania, are ongoing”

Was this not first announced 3 weeks ago? What sort of intricate negotiations have been going on in the meantime? We will have the population vaccinated by the time these negotiations are completed...

pfizer & moderna are virtually the exact same

Not to be excessively doom and gloomy, because I also fully believe we are in the end stages of the pandemic, at least in countries with high levels of vaccination. Once all adults and teens are done, the virus can and will still circulate among children. And for as long as such a large unvaccinated section of the population still exists, there is still some degree of risk, especially to those with compromised immune systems who rely on herd immunity. Hopefully at least one of the vaccines will be found to be safe for 5-12 year olds in the very near future because it really would be ideal if we could get children vaccinated in early winter.

What would you have had them do back in April/May ? Stop jabbing until everyone got Pfizer/Moderna ? How many weeks/months/lives would that have cost us ? They could have kept the dosage gap at 4 weeks for AZ, but the longer gap was shown to give better efficacy and the thoughts at the time were that it was better to have more people partially protected. Hindsight is great and the Delta has changed things but the advice that the best vaccine is the first one you're offered was and is still true.

Not sure if I've missed someone running the numbers, but we must surely be down to the last couple of weeks of 18+ first doses.

We're at 3.02m with at least one dose as of yesterday, out of 3.8m. 90% uptake is 3.42m, 95% uptake is 3.61.

30k first doses/day would get us there in 13 days/20 days respectively, i.e. 3 Aug/10 August.

Even 90% seems like a quite optimistic target.

Not sure what we'll do with the Janssen that's arriving later in August. It's no use to people with one dose of something else.

There is a chance that spare Janssen in a few months will be used as a booster for those who got mRNA vaccines 9-10 months before and would be at the highest risk - but that will require EMA/ECDC etc approvals and recommendations

Giving the opposite type as the booster is being kite-flown at the moment.