I’d say he was waiting for me to appear online at 6:18am to send it 
Dey Tuk Aar Jaabs
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I thought the AZ one was on a not for profit basis?
I’d say AZ lashed out what they had to the Brits thinking they’d have ramped it up for Herman when the time came but the ramp up isn’t as straight forward as they thought
As me auld lad used to you can’t take knickers off a bare arse. They don’t have the manufacturering capacity to build the stock. Only option is seek a refund or demand a cut in price when they can deliver
How many doses have the UK administered to date and how many AZ Oxford vaccines comprise that?
The EU had an order in for 80m vaccines, now cut to 31m? It looks to be some sort of production issue rather than the UK getting them surely as the UK have probably only received something like 10m to date?
Initial deal was 400 million doses for the EU at no profit.
Not sure if that has changed since.
Got the second jab today. In start contrast to jab 1 today’s vaccinator was a butcher, no small talk just “left or right arm?” before she buried it in there. And an impolite “you can go now” to conclude.
Anyway, Egghead Egghead Egghead 
Folk who have received both doses should be eligible for a haircut and a pint within 10 days of the second dose.
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The E.U. have issued a strongly worded statement 
Delay the vaccine by another month to stick em on.
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Boris is after hoovering up the stock of vaccine produced in Belgium. Brexit vindicated.
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Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly TD has confirmed that the vaccination of the third group in the government’s Vaccine Allocation Strategy will begin in February. Under the Vaccine Allocation Strategy, people aged 70 and older will be vaccinated in the following order: 85 and older, 80-84, 75-79, 70-74.
Minister Donnelly said:
"Today we have confirmed that the community vaccination programme will begin in February, subject to regulatory approval of AstraZeneca. Despite anticipated disruption to deliveries, which was announced on Friday 22 January, Ireland will receive a delivery of AstraZeneca vaccine within the expected range for February, although at the lower end of that range. Delivery in March is likely to be more impacted and considerably lower than what was originally stated by the company. We continue to prioritise those most vulnerable to COVID-19 in our society against the backdrop of limited supply of vaccines.
"For the moment, people do not need to take any specific action. The next stage of our vaccine programme will begin with those aged 85 years and older and will be administered initially through GPs in their surgeries. The HSE is preparing a public information campaign that will provide all necessary details in advance and ensure that everyone knows when, where and how to access their vaccine.
"In the meantime, completing vaccinations for those most vulnerable to COVID-19 infection remains the priority. Every possible nursing home resident has already received one dose and some have received second doses. Healthcare workers are also a priority. Second doses will be administered over the coming weeks to 77,000 healthcare workers. We will continue to roll out first and second doses to our remaining frontline healthcare workers during February.
"Our vaccination teams were unable to vaccinate some nursing homes residents and staff who had COVID-19 recently, or vaccinate those in some facilities where there were particularly large outbreaks. I would like to reassure those staff and residents that they will be prioritised and vaccinated as soon as possible, and in line with the guidelines drawn up by our National Immunisation Advisory Council.
"The HSE administered 143,000 vaccine doses to Sunday, January 24. I would like to thank the HSE, members of the High-Level Task Force on COVID-19 Vaccination, and their teams, for the effort and commitment they are putting into the efficient roll out of the vaccine programme. As we have seen in recent days, in these early stages things can change quickly and we have to build delivery around supply. Everyone involved understands the importance of this programme to the country. Everything that can be done is being done, and will be done, to deliver it.
“There is huge interest in our vaccine programme, which is very welcome. I committed recently to providing the public with daily figures, as full transparency is important. The HSE has advised that there is a backlog of figures to be inputted and validated. It is working hard to achieve full utilisation of the vaccination IT system at which point it will be in a position to provide updates.”
John Bull takes a few hours to reach this target.
He’s doing 3x that number every day.
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The EU basically picked the most promising vaccines and ordered a rake of them. Turns out they should have ordered more of some of them and possibly even spread their investment further too.
Fair enough, they weren’t to know which ones would be successful at the time, or whether they’d be two dose vaccines or need to be stored at low temperatures or whatever.
But considering how much every week of current lockdown costs they/we could well have afforded to spend a fuck load more earlier. Extra doses can and should be given to weaker countries. This is a major failing on the EUs tactics here in my opinion.
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Where is Professor Brían McCraith? He’s the chair of the vaccine committee and I haven’t seen him comment in public yet.
Ashutosh is flat out updating the IT systems to get the vaccine numbers logged.