No, the Oxford one was ahead, but got held up for a few weeks as a trialist suffered an adverse event which it transpires was unrelated.
The Oxford one has huge logistical advantages in that it only need to be stored in a fridge as opposed to minus 70, and huge ethical and financial advantages as they are committed to supplying it at cost, three of four quid a shot.
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England, England, England
Did I see somewhere this morning that the Oxford vaccine is only 70% effective? The Brits once again made a show of by the Yanks.
You can get it up from 70% to 90% by adjusting the dosage.
2 needles no waiting. Like inner city Dublin.
Bizarrely, if I read it correctly, it seems that a half a dose followed by a full dose is more effective than two full doses??🤷
Claire Byrne will be rolling up her sleeve on 12 December
How many would be realistic to be vaccinating per day?
Would we manage 20k?
Doubtful I’d say just by reference to other countries but it isn’t clear yet what the whole logistics of it is yet.
Why don’t we have a strategy already…?
We can test 15k per day which involves swabbing/transporting to lab/testing in lab/confirming results to patients.
Surely vaccinating should be easier?
The peak testing figure was about 20k a day using the drive in test centres.
Could they use drive in vaccine centres 
Do you not need some sort of medical qualification to administer. Is it not usually GPs and pharmacists who can administer vaccines?
And trained nurses.
The bottleneck for the testing was probably in the lab. I couldn’t see a drive through working as it would have to be closely controlled using your RSI number and an online doctors surgery.
We could get jobs for all the junkies in Dublin, they’d be the most experienced in the country when it comes to dispensing intravenous medication.
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I’d assume it’s more complicated in fairness. They’re going to need huge facilities for administering it. I’d say the likes of Citywest and the RDS will be procured in Dublin.
I’m only going off the US thinking they can do 20-30m a month, though I’m not sure if that was just down to supply at the time, us going 600k a month would seem tall to me. I wonder could Oxford’s vaccine be administered by a GP?
How many people got the flu jab in the last 6 weeks out of interest?
I doubt we’d have an issue of having enough vaccines at any one time to worry about having the scale to roll out