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My Dad’s just had his first AstraZeneca jab with the second one due on 11 April…
The GAO reveals that even after the agency “made 27 different recommendations aimed at improving the response, the Trump administration failed to implement them.”
As President Joe Biden continues to sort through the wreckage left by his predecessor, a government agency known as the “congressional watchdog” issued a new report Thursday shedding more light on the Trump administration’s failed response to the raging coronavirus pandemic.
And millions of peoples continue loving capitalism
I recall being in the inenviable position of having to defend Trump on coronavirus by referring to Cuomo’s negligence in the deaths of NY’s elderly at care homes.
It now seems the death rate was even higher than first thought.
At least 12,743 long-term care residents died of the virus as of Jan. 19, far greater than the official tally of 8,505.
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-nursing-home-coronavirus-deaths-a6c214f4467976efdfca9ba75f8adaef
Where the shortage of vaccines are
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-countries-delaying-halting-vaccinations-over-delivery-shortages/a-56376344
https://www.prevention.com/health/a35118263/astrazeneca-vs-pfizer-vs-moderna-covid-19-vaccine/
Astrazeneca vs Pfizer vs Moderna
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/health/gamaleya-covid-19-vaccine.html
How Sputnik 5 works
Finally some good news about coronavirus
Needles and syringes shortage
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-needles/analysis-russian-roulette-in-europe-as-needle-shortages-hamper-covid-19-shots-idUSKBN29Y10C
while output of needles and syringes is sufficient to meet current demand, chaotic ordering means that they often do not get to where they are most urgently needed.“There wasn’t time for rigorous testing. Would socialism wait an extra year and a million more deaths before approving a vaccine? Hardly. If you want a vaccine fast, you have to accept some unknowns. That would be just as true in socialism as now.”
Fair point.
“My Dad’s just had his first AstraZeneca jab with the second one due on 11 April…”
Interesting that he’s already got a date for the second jab. Did he get this when he had his first one? I don’t know whether there’s a policy on how soon you get a date for the second one.
Hannah My Dad’s just had his first AstraZeneca jab with the second one due on 11 April…
rodshaw Interesting that he’s already got a date for the second jab. Did he get this when he had his first one? I don’t know whether there’s a policy on how soon you get a date for the second one.
Before that even; he was given both dates at the same time.
I make that 10 weeks. That means when they say “up to 12 weeks” it’s going to be nearer 12 than the 3 weeks recommended (and applied to start with — I know a comrade who’s had both, but then he’s 90). Let’s hope they know what they’re doing.
He had his first shot last Sunday (24 January) so I think you’ll find that’s 11 weeks. But anyway, when he asked what the recommended interval was between the two doses he was told “anytime between 3 and 12 weeks”. (also see link)
A close friend of mine in Kent, who is not in any particular “priority” category, has just received a postal communication dated 22 January, inviting him to book a vaccine appointment, either online or by phoning 119.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/coronavirus-vaccine/
An article in this weekend’s i paper headed “UK paid more and acted quickly to secure doses” gives a clue as to why AstraZenica is reneging on its contract with the EU in favour of supplying the UK market with its vaccine:
“the UK is believed to be paying more per dose than the EU”
Ah, yes, I see.
More on the pricing policies of the drug companies which reveals that the issue is not “vaccine nationalism” but the drug companies dubious business practice.
Interesting snippets from the British Medical Journal:
“A string of revelations about vaccine prices has focused attention on a practice considered normal in the drug industry but often frowned on elsewhere: charging different prices to different customers for the same product.”
“AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson have committed to not making a profit from the pandemic, while Moderna and Pfizer did not. AstraZeneca reserved the right, however, to declare the pandemic phase over and take profits from later vaccine sales.”
This fom the Financial Times suggests that the way out for EU is to offer to pay more.
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