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12-17-2020 10:09 PM
12-18-2020 09:15 AM
Here's an article I found from apnews
......In Washington, D.C., two senior administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal planning said states will receive their full allocations, but misunderstandings about vaccine supply and changes to the delivery schedule may be creating confusion.
One official said the initial numbers of available doses that were provided to states were projections based on information from the manufacturers, not fixed allocations. Some state officials may have misunderstood that, the official said.
The two officials also said that changes the federal government made to the delivery schedule, at the request of governors, may be contributing to a mistaken impression that fewer doses are coming. The key change involves spacing out delivery of states’ weekly allocations over several days to make distribution more manageable. “They will get their weekly allocation, it just won’t come to them on one day,” one official said.
Pfizer made it clear that as far as production goes, nothing has changed. “Pfizer has not had any production issues with our COVID-19 vaccine, and no shipments containing the vaccine are on hold or delayed,” spokesman Eamonn Nolan said in an email. “We are continuing to dispatch our orders to the locations specified by the U.S. government.”
The company said in a written statement that this week it “successfully shipped all 2.9 million doses that we were asked to ship by the U.S. Government to the locations specified by them. We have millions more doses sitting in our warehouse but, as of now, we have not received any shipment instructions for additional doses.”
The senior administration officials said Pfizer’s statement about doses awaiting shipping instructions, while technically accurate, conveniently omits the explanation: It was planned that way.
The federal officials said Pfizer committed to provide 6.4 million doses of its vaccine in the first week after approval. But the federal Operation Warp Speed had already planned to distribute only 2.9 million of those doses right away. Another 2.9 million were to be held at Pfizer’s warehouse to guarantee that individuals vaccinated the first week would be able to get their second shot later to make protection fully effective. Finally, the government is holding an additional 500,000 doses as a reserve against unforeseen problems.
Pfizer said it remains confident it can deliver up to 50 million doses globally this year and up to 1.3 billion doses in 2021.
12-18-2020 09:34 AM - edited 12-18-2020 09:37 AM
This is not at all what was said by Mr. Azar this morning on GMA. Seems he and Pfizer aren't on the same page.
12-18-2020 11:21 AM
Heard on CNN:
Johnson & Johnson's vaccine ... yet to be approved will only be "1 shot" not two. This would be my choice but I wonder if this amount of forced protein production would cause potentially more negative reactions?
12-18-2020 11:28 AM - edited 12-18-2020 11:40 AM
@Lipstickdiva wrote:This is not at all what was said by Mr. Azar this morning on GMA. Seems he and Pfizer aren't on the same page.
I'm certainly no cheerleader for the pharma industry. In fact, my career in the industry ended when Pfizer acquired the company that I worked for and I declined to relocate. However; in this case, I believe that Pfizer is being truthful.
12-18-2020 11:53 AM
This post has been removed by QVC because it is political
12-18-2020 12:07 PM
12-18-2020 12:48 PM
Well we've got lots of people - including the Gates, NYT, NPR etc. etc. insisting that it is racist to give any precdence for the vaccine to the US - despite our contributing billions to ensure its rapid development.
12-18-2020 01:15 PM
People often trust unknown sources when they validate that person's opinion; conversely, people rail at them when they don't.
This thread has gone off the rails.
12-19-2020 08:29 AM
It is also interesting to see the controversy now over who should receive the vaccine first - even in the US. Very divisive.
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