The vaccines are the cheapest part of this whole thing. Probably not in the top fifty three line items.
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The vaccines are the cheapest part of this whole thing. Probably not in the top fifty three line items.
I don't think they are being overlooked? My friend's wife is a pharmacist and she is getting her vaccine this week. She does work at the pharmacy at the South Health Campus, perhaps that's why. My wife is getting her second dose next week as are all the residents at her care home.
Looks like Pfizer has deferred next week's shipment, but the government promises they'll increase doses the first two weeks of February. So somehow, they'll ramp up enough to cover last week's shortage, this week's shortage and next week's deferral.
The Pfizer delivery schedule has been completely removed from the government website and Moderna still only shows until the end of February, at which time we'll have received about 40% of the 2 million Moderna doses and if their schedule doesn't change, only receive Moderna during the week of March 15-21.
It is quite likely that the vaccine environment will be quite different by the first week in March.
This was all announced a few days ago - Pfizer temporarily reducing production capacity so that they can upgrade their facilities to be able to produce more. Short term pain for long term gain. Nothing surprising here
On a related note, pretty interesting to see CCP working to reduce trust of their competitor vaccines:
China is a piece of shit.
The news from a few days ago was that countries that receive shipments from their Belgian plant (EU, Canada, basically anybody but the States) would receive reduced shipments during the upgrade.
The EU pitched a fit about this, so Pfizer realigned their shipments; EU now gets a less-reduced shipment, and as a result Canada is getting zero doses this shipment. All provinces that followed the federal push to not hold back the 2nd dose and instead allocate the majority of available doses are now screwed as the missed shipment means thousands of folks will not receive the second dose in time.
Let's not forget that the Feds partnered with China to produce a vaccine, send a shitload of Canadian research to the Chinese, who then said "Thanks for all the data, also we're never going to actually send you the vaccine, suckers."
Is the efficacy of the vaccine reduced if the second dose is taken much mater than intended? I assumed it was but I haven't seen any actual data on it.
The wife got her second shot and had some mild symptoms for one evening and that was it, not too bad.
Ah didn’t see that detail about them reallocating all the Canada doses to EU during this upgrade. Dick move. JT needs to whine louder than EU leaders it seems.
You can’t whine much louder than the French.
Is there a conservative left on twitter?
I’m surprised anyone ever gave Twitter the time of day in the first place
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In time to meet the manufacturer spec for the booster, as they advise against delaying the second shot due to efficacy concerns. We don't have firm footing on whether a delay is fine or if it has a measurable impact on immunity - just not enough data on hand yet. Hence why holding back the 2nd dose was considered the prudent strategy until some folks got up in arms about the slow rollout.
Why aren't you giving the doses?!!!?!
WHY DID YOU GIVE ALL THE DOSES?!?!
fucking socialists