The Race for a Vaccine. The Road to Demaskus

AlanHQ · January 27, 2021, 3:21pm

European Research Group just after breaking up after emergency meeting. Major Captain Smithers urging Boris to declare immediate war on EU and bomb Berlin before nightfall.

Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy · January 28, 2021, 10:11am

Was on the phone with my mamma last night and she is all set for the vaccine, she said Pappa is being stubborn and doesn’t think he needs it. Anyway I have to book them in for it today.

myboyblue · January 28, 2021, 10:13am

Hope all goes well mate. It will hopefully give them a bit of peace.

Copper_pipe · January 28, 2021, 1:10pm

Thomas_Brady · January 28, 2021, 1:13pm

Oh fuck… I hate being right here.

@Tierneevin1979

Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy · January 28, 2021, 1:19pm

So it raises big question marks over Britain’s vaccination drive?

Presumably down in the free state now they will preserve all Pfizer/Moderna for auld ones and horse the Oxford Az into the younger folk?

Thomas_Brady · January 28, 2021, 1:20pm

The next 5 years will tell a lot.

Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy · January 28, 2021, 1:20pm

We should have rugby football effectively killed off by then.

Thomas_Brady · January 28, 2021, 1:21pm

A price everyone is willing to pay

Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy · January 28, 2021, 1:22pm

The comments section there has a helluva lot of very angry Brexiteers.

Julio_Geordio · January 28, 2021, 1:28pm

Sure it makes no odds. Use those vaccines to jab people under 65 at risk, teachers, essential workers etc. There’s a lot more under 65 than over.
That’s if we even follow the Germans

Batigol · January 28, 2021, 1:33pm

Are the Germans playing politics here?

Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy · January 28, 2021, 1:33pm

According to the internet. 12% of the free state population is over 65.

So that’s around 1m doses needed of Pfizer/Moderna to vaccinate the elderly.

Julio_Geordio · January 28, 2021, 2:07pm

Plus the same again for vulnerable u-65s, nurses, doctors, frontline workers etc.

I reckon roughly 1m people or 2million doses total is the magic number

Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy · January 28, 2021, 2:08pm

You can horse in the Oxford AZ to them ones though.

Julio_Geordio · January 28, 2021, 2:09pm

Absolutely. Pack em and stack em

Julio_Geordio · January 28, 2021, 2:11pm

Once Mark MacSharry has come back from space on the sputnik with the KKK vaccine we’ll be hard bet

glenshane · January 28, 2021, 3:23pm

Why we haven’t had Klan in these here parts since, oh I dunno, 1795 I guess

Tierneevin1979 · January 28, 2021, 3:24pm

What is it you think you are right about?

Tim_Riggins · January 28, 2021, 3:32pm

Don’t think so, I think AZ have been playing silly on this one tbh.

They delayed their application to the EMA for weeks and weeks. Why? Because I assume they knew that their data was limited, sure the US were miffed by what they were at;

But in the United States, where regulators have been frustrated with AstraZeneca and want to examine data from a greater number of participants, that approval appears further off.

AZ wanted the UK to be their Israel, where they had lovely mass rollout data. The UK were more amendable to less data & added to that, AZ like everyone else knew that scaling up production would be a challenge.

So they delayed their application to the EU, starting horsing out the supply chain in the UK which included doses from Europe.

I’m sure they hoped in the interim time that emerging data from the UK, where they have mass vaccinations, along with the US trials would result in the EMA’s concerns being allayed. And by that time, I assume they hoped the plants would be throwing out what the EU needed.

I can understand why the EU are livid.