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I think most of your comments were answered in the articles and comments above?
The number of shots the government has bought is not enough?
Its been reported that they have ordered 100 million doses of the Oxford Vaccine and 40 million of the pfizer vaccine. Enough to cover 2 doses for the whole population.Fact is, there is not currently 160 million vials of vaccine waiting on a shelf somewhere waiting to be purchased.
How quickly it can be manufactured and distributed is a different problem, made more difficult because every country wants it.
Example: 15 billion doses needed for 2 doses for the whole world.
Biggest vaccine producer (Serum Institute) makes 1.5 billion vaccines in a year. (of all types)
Has agreements to produce vaccines for 92 countries. As they are based in India, there will be priority demand for home country use.Even if they tried to double the manufacture, they still need other elements of the supply chain, basics such as hundreds of millions of glass vials, to accelerate the distribution.
Many things could get in the way to slow distribution, such as the Belgian viral vectors factory being blamed for lower slow down in manufacture for Astra Zeneca.
Also Pfizer has hit manufacturing delays, which is pretty unsurprising, given that this is the biggest order of any vaccine in history...
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Even if they tried to double the manufacture, they still need other elements of the supply chain, basics such as hundreds of millions of glass vials, to accelerate the distribution.
See also the special syringes that get the 6th dose out of the pfizer vials, but of which there is now (unsurprisingly) a worldwide shortage.
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I understand, and agree with you that the vaccines production levels being the biggest ever.
The issues I have, which may have my own bias is:
-The announcement that 'we' bought this number of vaccines, first to approve as we are no longer part of the EU etc.
The information was a statement of one fact, without giving any other information such as the timescale that we would receive the purchased two vaccines, how storage and distribution would need to be very different and how this country had prepared for it.
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Here is one of the things I have mentioned a few times, how was the dose spacing decided? Was it the rush to get it out or was this based on something?
This is new tech, yet one minute it is DNA altering and the next comparing to previous vaccines. Both the two comments are based on the same facts aren't they?
There seem to be no definitive answer to how long resistance to Covid 19 exists after having covid 19. So we are in a whole new exciting time.
The number of shots the gov bought was not enough. No way round it, more showboating by the UK GOV, up there with sticking the union flag on the russian/oxford developed old style vaccine. We were told we are leading the way by buying x number of vaccines with no timescale nor how the vaccine would get round border controls, especially as the vaccine needs to be kept in quite strict transport environment. Your comment of we bought enough makes no sense, without all the facts that go with it. This is the continuation of loved one will die mentality. Am amazed the NHS was allowed to give the vacine and not hived off to a tory company. Actually is that because if anything goes wrong the NHS will be blamed....
Your short changed comment also grates, why shouldn't we all have the same chance? Puts a true value judgement on life. Once again that fuck disgusting tory 'loved ones will die' mantra.
Not even going there on the final comment, having seen people that are healthier, younger and stronger than us die. Maybe the comment is being taken wrongly and not the way you intended it.