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The Vaccine Thread.

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Curious what the constraint was because they shipped more doses then that and, like you said, we have 327M people to inject.

Note, in 3 weeks, these 500k people will take away resources from those getting their first dose...

It will be interesting what the ramp to mass vaccination looks like.

EDIT: just know, it takes 29 (which included 10 medical staff) employees to run an 8hr 4 station vaccination clinic... and you net 1,000 vaccinated people (So this was ~14,500 employees to support)
 
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Friend of mine got hers today in Vacaville. She's a nurse at one of the hospitals there.

No urge to eat brains...... yet
 
Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine takes two shots, three weeks apart. The U.S. is allocating doses of Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine weekly, with 5.1 million first doses planned for distribution through the week of Dec. 21, according to a state-by-state breakdown of shipments released by the U.S. government.

The second doses are being held in reserve and will begin shipping out in batches three weeks after the first-dose allocations. The vaccine is being distributed based on state population.

So the second set of doses will not arrive in CA until Jan 4...
 
Curious, friend of mine working with a medical group, one of the things that they have an issue with is that the virus has a "shelf life" of 6 hours after it's been mixed.

For those that don't know, the vaccine comes in refrigerated containers, and is then removed and "mixed" and then administered.

The doses then are viable for 6 hours.

So, if someone makes an appointment for a vaccine, but does not make it, the provider wants to alert folks that a "spot" has been opened up so that someone can rush in and take the vaccine before it goes bad.

Basically, they're trying to be pro-active with this. Every dose matter and nobody wants to see any of them wasted.
 
Seems like a good interview, answering questions about rna vaccines.

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weird, i thought there weren't enough vaccines to go around and that we were collectively prioritizing medical people and first responders
 
My SO works for Radys Childrens in the lab and just got her vaccine today. Last week she was told she was 2nd tier. Now she has it. :dunno

Her sister is an ER doc and got her vaccine last Friday.
 
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My SO works for Radys Childrens in the lab and just got her vaccine today. Last week she was told she was 2nd tier. Now she has it. :dunno

Her sister is an ER doc and got her vaccine last Friday.
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Quite a few of my friends have received it already. It's crazy how many healthcare workers I know. Seems like every other post on FB is one of them getting it. Gragorian (sp) just got his the other day.
 
Not sure if anyone else was keeping track of the number of vaccines ordered and the schedule in which they are to be delivered. I'm not sure if 1 dose = 1 vaccination, couldn't find the breakdown in any of the articles. It looks like in Q1 200M secured (100M Pfizer, 100M Moderna) and Q2 has 100M secured (0 Pfizer, 100M Moderna) so far with Pfizer currently being strongarmed for 50-100M in Q2.

Moderna's 20M by EOY commitment looks good if hospitals can administer it all and additionally owes 100M by March (Q1) and another 100M by June (Q2).


Pfizer agreed to 100M doses by march (Q1)
https://www.npr.org/sections/health...to-get-more-doses-of-pfizers-covid-19-vaccine

pfizer's getting strongarmed for a 10s of millions more doses of vaccine (up to 100M):
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-coronavirus-vaccine-7ca845de157dacafd8bc974de451e928

Moderna agreed to 100M by March and additional 100M by June:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health...erna-meet-the-demand-for-its-covid-19-vaccine


Administration breakdown by state for the entire US (~777,766 administered):
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/
 
I'm not paying attention to any of it.

I'll get mine whenever it is I get mine. I'm in no rush, as even if I got my vaccine today, my life wouldn't change.

I'm not waiting so much for my situation to change, as I am waiting for societies situation to change.

When it happens, it happens, I'll stand in line with the rest.

What I will not do, however, is go before my wife can go. In theory I might be "higher risk" than her, but I'll wait when we can go together and get it done. I'm not in a high risk area, or job, or anything else. So, I'll wait for both of us.
 
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If I might persuade you to think about this another way... if you get sick and need care, you're probably going to the hospital. And at the hospital are the same nurses caring for you who are exhausted and burned-out from taking care of all the people who are in there who didn't have the option to take the vaccine. You're still going to take up a bed, and possibly an ICU bed, from someone else. So, if the collective medical community believes that getting you the vaccine before your wife is the best choice, please take it. It was meant for you, and you not taking it means that energy is taken away from the vaccination effort by having to make last minute changes to the plan. You're just one person, but if millions do as you do, we're just slowing down the process. We're all getting vaccinated at some point. You don't get a special badge on your jacket for manners here. Take it when you're asked to, please, and keep things moving. :)

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I'm not paying attention to any of it.

I'll get mine whenever it is I get mine. I'm in no rush, as even if I got my vaccine today, my life wouldn't change.

I'm not waiting so much for my situation to change, as I am waiting for societies situation to change.

When it happens, it happens, I'll stand in line with the rest.

What I will not do, however, is go before my wife can go. In theory I might be "higher risk" than her, but I'll wait when we can go together and get it done. I'm not in a high risk area, or job, or anything else. So, I'll wait for both of us.
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