I was on about the Club championships
âevery vaccine countsâ but lets leave 40,000 of them sitting in a fridge as giving the second dose anything other than exactly 3 weeks apart seems to be more dangerous than getting COVID itself.
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Where is that coming from? Given supplies are limited at the moment it would seem sensible to wait a week or two and make sure they are administered correctly rather than squandering them, it that is at issue, right?
I am assuming thatâs their logic. I canât think of any other reason why they arenât horsing every single vaccine into people as soon as they get it.
Healthcare workers who are close contacts but have no symptoms have been requested to return to work now such is the shortage of staff
CUH has no capacity. Have set up a covid ward in Mallow and started moving patients there yday to free up capacity for more serious cases
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The slow start is frustrating and my expectation is that we will be slower than other EU countries in the long run, but that remains to be seen.
At moment it makes sense to make sure all the vaccines on hand are used successfully while supply is very limited. I think some of the criticism of the government on the slowness with vaccination has been a bit over the top so far.
Used successfully⌠How do you mean? A storage issue or a sticking it in someoneâs arm issue?
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Can you try that post again, but this time with some logic applied?
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Sure the only reason theyâve anyone vaccinated at all is because of criticism. They werenât planning on vaccinating at the weekends initially until people were mean to them on Twitter
Lads wanted a vaccine invented within a few months, then they wanted it stored at minus 70. Then they want it distributed, now they want a booster
Would an invermectin tablet not have been a lot handier? Worked for 1.4 billion Indians
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My understanding is that if someone gets the jab and doesnât get the second one at the right time then they arenât vaccinated for the long term, right? Would you prefer they started lashing out injections willy nilly or planned to make sure that the second one is administered at the right time, even if that took a couple of weeks? Iâd prefer the second.
Reports that admin staff were vaccinated before frontline in Tralee and Limerick.
One for Paul Reid to explain
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With the amount of supplies we have at the moment vaccinating people at weekends is purely for optics, itâs not going to massively speed up the overall process.
When we have big numbers of supplies on hand then it makes more sense to work through weekends and round the clock even. I might be wrong but right now it will hardly make a difference will it?
If thereâs gonna be a supply of millions and if the first jab reduces your risk by 60-70% I think there is a case to be made for lashing it in quickly, especially to vulnerable elderly people in nursing homes.
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Thatâs hardly a surprise. They have holidays to take and planes to fly on.
A scandal if true
Why canât they do it correctly at speed? Itâs sticking a needle in someoneâs arm and updating a database /file ffs. You public servants are gas.
Iâve heard that happened in St. Jamesâs too. The admin staff in the hospital were the only ones available to pop down for an injection at their leisure. Youâd have to wonder at it, sometimes not seems like if itâs at all possible they can get something wrong they will find it and get it wrong.
The government is run by the opinion of the lick arses on twitter. Sad state of affairs
The optics of that are terrible. It happened in the UK as well.