The health service is largely scheduled and run for the benefit of the people working in it. This just confirms that.
About 300k in fridges on Sunday.
‘Flat out’
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In bed
I have it at 350k (including the estimated AZ adjusted on the Belgian figure which arrived Sunday).
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About 335k in play at the moment. J&J not in use.
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When they turning the J&J back on?
There’s a press briefing scheduled for later today so we may know more later on.
NIAC/HSE aren’t gonna make any decision on increasing the Pfizer jab before they know more on the J&J situation.
TBF I don’t see the point in spreading the vaccines to 8-12 weeks at this point. Should have been done much earlier if they are down that road. Supply is no longer the issue so it’s simply a case of them getting vaccines admininistered.
The current stock at around the close of the week past was:
Pfizer - 100k (delivery >100k due yesterday/today)
AZ - 145k (another 45k or so expected towards the end of the week)
Moderna - 91k (Another 20k expected towards the end of the week)
J&J - 15k (another 27k or so expected this week)
I really can’t understand the logic on the Moderna one.
52k doses administered, we’ll say 10k of those are second doses at this point. So 40k needed for second doses. So why is there 90k sitting in a fridge and growing every fortnight?
If they had the ambition and were treating this as an emergency they would have had every single 65-69 year old who applied on the portal done by the close of the week with AZ.
They should be hitting 230-240k this week - not 160k.
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As recently as the 31 Mar, RTE was reporting the following list of vaccination centres would be open and that 30 would be open by the end of April so they need to open an additional 4 next week beyond what they are bigging up today to meet that. I’m at a loss to why only 30 are open by April. Anyway do we know which of these are open and which aren’t?
Full list of vaccine centres
1 Sligo IT
2 Galway Racecourse
3 Radisson Hotel, Ennis Road Limerick
4 Páirc Uí Chaoimh
5 City Hall Cork
6 MTU Campus Melbourn Building
7 WIT Arena
8 Aviva Stadium
9 Citywest Convention Centre
10 International Arena AIT
11 Helix Theatre DCU
12 Letterkenny Institute of Technology
13 Kilmore Hotel Cavan
14 Hillgrove Hotel Monaghan
15 Primary Care Unit, Carrick-on-Shannon Leitrim
16 Breaffy House Resort
17 Abbey Hotel, Roscommon
18 West County Hotel, Ennis
19 Abbeycourt Hotel Nenagh Tippeary
20 Mallow GAA Club
21 Killarney Sports & Leisure Centre
22 Clonakilty GAA Club
23 Bantry Primary Care Centre
24 Kerry Sports Academy
25 Cillin Hill Conference Centre, Kilkenny
26 The Clonmel Park Hotel
27 Riverside Hotel Enniscorthy
28 Carlow IT
29 Shoreline Leisure Centre, Greystones Co Wicklow
30 Arklow Bay Hotel & Conference Centre
31 Punchestown Racecourse
32 Bloomfield House Hotel, Mullingar
33 Simmonstown GAA Club, Navan
34 Midlands Park Hotel, Portlaoise
35 Fairways Hotel, Enniscorthy Wexford
36 Clonguish GAA Club
37 Tullamore Court Hotel
38 Croke Park
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I think possibly one reason for why they haven’t ramped up the schedule this week is that they only opened the portal for 65-69 last week. You can understand the over 70s taking time if it’s with the GP but why weren’t other cohorts taking advantage of the mass vacc centres when there was supply there to be used? Surely this should have been done weeks in advance and have had the rollout starting last week. From what we are told there is maximum capability to do 500k a week or so. They have loads of vaccines sitting in a fridge.
The planning and implementation of the rollout has been utterly shambolic.
That’s some kick into the teeth for a fella like me who’s desperately waiting for the pubs to open.
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The next problem will be the doses will be gone off and they don’t have facilities to dump them.
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Could always be worse
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The argument for Pfizer at least is it has been shown to be massively effective after one shot. 80% plus. Better to have a million people covered than 500k very very covered. You get all the over 50s and at risk done with one shot and then you can open up ta fuck while waiting for the second one
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That’s fine if supply is an issue but it’s not. The issue seems to be the painfully slow rollout at present.
By the end of June, there should have been well over 5m vaccines received into the country. How many will have been administered by then? 50%? 60%? That’s your issue right there.
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That’s Brossie, he has 4 sons also named Brossie, one was a LOI footballers, all mad stuck in the Glen and St Nicks
Cork hurler Dean (Brossie) Brosnan is a nephew
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You can’t bate the Cark wit
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