The Race for a Vaccine. The Road to Demaskus

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1463

That doesn’t sound right.
That means it would two years to get our allocation

1464

What’s the story with the Oxford one in the EU?

It’s been approved by the UK.

1465

Don’t think they’ve even applied for a licence

1466

That sounds about right?

Isn’t Ireland due to get 15m doses overall?

1467

:weary::weary:

1468

In phase 3 trials at the moment so i’d say it would be March at the earliest.

1469

The EMA want more data.

1470

Could we not just say 60% have been vaccinated and oiutf?

1471

With the Germans pushing for its approval, I suspect it will he moved forward to the end of January now.

1472

I assume it’s 20k and Varadkar is talking about half the doses being used like with Pfizer.

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1473

Have you considered moving to a Country that is firmly OIUTF?

1474

I would have thought that’s what’s going to happen -get the most vulnerable done and off we go ?

1475

To Cheltenham again?

1476

No. Loss to the locale would be too great to bear

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1477

We could get more than the 880k based on this. I think the 880k figure was in the initial National Covid-19 Vaccination Strategy but the order has been updated since.

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1478

Not a hope. The more a man has the more a man wants etc

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1479

Maybe Not that dramatic but a lot more movement domestically,no ?

1480

Hopefully. The EU left it late with extra orders from Pfizer and Moderna so seems like they are only putting in the additional capacity this month.

Martin said 135k fully vaccinated from Pfizer yesterday by the end of February. Moderna starting next week might be another 40k fully done by February. Hopefully that 175k is the low end and we see the increased capacity of Moderna/Pfizer along with AZ in February and we are really motoring by the middle of next month.

1481

TĂĄnaiste Leo Varadkar has said the decision by the EMA to approve the Moderna vaccine will allow us to vaccinate an extra 10,000 people a week approximately.

1482

You’d be really hopefully they are just supply constraints to the numbers too. If more vaccine because available they can be ramped up. We can do this. We’ll be opening back up for good come March.