[Nas]

Interesting tool to give you a vague idea of where you fall in the line to get the vaccine:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/03/opinion/covid-19-vaccine-timeline.html

[Ready2Transform]

Thank you for that link, Nas!

Prayers going up, Mitz. Big hugs everything stays at a manageable level through your healing.

[xyzcf]

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-design.html?fbclid=IwAR3zfZgRd8CLDHVmbOPjsu0F-riGxMV3icwRcXywf-BOaTszgnFGDAJaXmw

When we look back, we are going to be appalled at how this was handled

[marvin4242]

Not sure why that means we could have moved any faster. To qualify and make sure a vaccine is safe in 10 months is AMAZING. I can’t even imagine what would have happened if we had taken shortcuts and something had gone wrong.

On the other hand this is criminal incompetence. Pfizer offered to sell more doses to US government before committing supplies overseas and the Trump administration refused. Now Pfizer can not supply more to the US after first 100 million doses until July of next year. Meanwhile EU has secured 200 million doses with option for another 100 doses. I mean when a company tries to make sure the supplies go the the host country first and the “America First” administration refuses what do you call that?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/us/trump-covid-vaccine-pfizer.html

[xyzcf]

I agree regarding the roll out of the vaccine. As it is, people do not trust it as they say it’s too fast.

I was referring more to the other issues regarding the handling of the pandemic that the article addresses.

Why the Trump administration refused to buy more doses is typical of how badly things were handled. I think the Canadian government has  several different contracts with different manufacturers for the vaccine for their population, since they are not capable of producing the vaccine in Canada.

What concerns me as well is this interim period when there seems to be an attempt of the present government to make it as difficult as possible for planning of the distribution of the vaccine. It sickens me that more deaths will occur because of “politics”.

[LBS_Les]

Why the Trump administration refused to buy more doses is typical of how badly things were handled. I think the Canadian government has  several different contracts with different manufacturers for the vaccine for their population, since they are not capable of producing the vaccine in Canada.

Medicago is one Canadian company that is working to develop a vaccine, and completed Phase 1 of trials.   The Canadian government has entered a contract to purchase vaccinations once approved by Health Canada

There are also other Canadian companies currently working on a vaccine, I just dont think they got a deal from the government to supply Canadians with them, yet.


Im interested to see how the UK distributes the vaccinations - what is the class priority here, on who gets dosages? 

[Treasur]

Most vulnerable elderly first followed by frontline healthcare and care home workers I believe. But some uncertainly over whether they can transport the Pfizer vaccine to care homes if people can't come to the fifty or so vaccine hubs, largely based at hospitals.
First person to have the vaccine today was a 90 year old who just happened to be in hospital for some other tests....

[Nas]

I just read that one of the first people to receive the vaccine was an 81-year-old man name William Shakespeare and that just made me almost real smile. 

[Songanddance]

The first woman in the uk to receive the vaccine was 91 yr old Margaret.

She didn't look 91 at all and she was so lively and so bubbly......yet again another wake up call in being grateful (Vaccine or not)

Covid has done much damage but it has also become the biggest human reset button we have all needed for a long time.

(BTW Nas - loved the fact that he called himself Bill rather than William)

[Treasur]

I found this rather thought provoking (in a good way).....made me muse if the same is not also partly true about our own lives wrt MLC actually...l.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/09/2020-misery-year-covid