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An important fact that I haven't seen mentioned in this thread is that 3m doses have been manufactured already and are available in the UK supply chain today. "
by sgt101 6y ago
An important fact that I haven't seen mentioned in this thread is that 3m doses have been manufactured already and are available in the UK supply chain today. "All" that's required is the approval from the regulator - but I guess that is still a little way off. 3m would do a lot of good though - frontline staff, the most vulnerable, hotspots....
- anoncake 6y agoWere any doses produced yet of the other two vaccines?
- est31 6y agoAt least in the US, it seems so: > Currently, OWS is working with 11 drug manufacturing companies to produce 800 million doses of six different COVID-19 vaccines, five of which are in Phase III clinical trials. By prepurchasing and premanufacturing these vaccines prior to approval, the vaccine distribution plan can be activated and supplies delivered within 24 hours of any of the vaccines receiving FDA approval. https://college.acaai.org/updates-on-covid-19-vaccine-distribution/ https://college.acaai.org/updates-on-covid-19-vaccine-distri...
- alleskleber 6y agoBioNTech/Pfizer plan to deliver 50 million doses by the end of the year. https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/pfizer-and-biontech-submit-emergency-use-authorization-request https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-det...
- sgt101 6y agoI am not sure : I know the other vaccines must be stored at a very low temperature, but does anyone know how long they can be stored for at all?
- lbeltrame 6y agoUp to six months.
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- strombofulous 6y ago3m worth of working vaccines would do a lot of good, the problem is we aren't sure it works (or even that it doesn't harm you or make you more susceptible)
- sgt101 6y agoMore data required - and then approval, I hope. But you are right, today we don't have all of that information.
- standardUser 6y agoExcept that literally all of the data so far says "it works and is safe".
- strombofulous 6y ago"Literally all the data" that's been collected on the impact of me not picking my nose shows that it prevents covid This does not mean that by not picking your nose you can prevent covid We would need more data to show that conclusively Simiarly, we need more data to show that these vaccines are effective and don't have negative long-term effects
- standardUser 6y agoEfficacy has been proven to a high enough degree of certainty that these vaccines are now being submitted for approval. Safety was largely proven in Phase 1/2 trials (before tens of thousands of people were injected with the stuff for Phase 3 trials). And all signs continue to show the vaccine to be safe (and data will continue to be collected for at least a year or two for the various Phase 3 trials). Maybe "you" need more data for whatever concept you have in your head of how this should work. However, within the scientific community involved with developing and approving these vaccines, the data we have is sufficient (pending review of course).
- strombofulous 6y ago
- potamic 6y agoIndia has already made 40m and is ramping up to 100m https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-13/india-to-get-100-million-astra-shots-next-month-says-serum-head https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-13/india-to-...
- peter303 6y agoThe Gates Foundation has been capital-sharing with Indian manufacturers to get more vaccine into 3rd world.