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A four-day weekend off for Thanksgiving won't make much difference when it's going to take months to scale up manufacturing no matter what. But needing to mail

• haltingproblem 6y ago
  I dont get this logic. If it is going to take months to scale up manufacturing then we can just add a few more days and take another 2,000 deaths per day? How many few more days are acceptable?
  • senkora 6y ago
    I think the logic is that the scaling up manufacturing is already occurring in parallel, so it isn’t as simple as an N day delay causing N days worth of deaths. The excess deaths would be N times the (small) fraction of daily deaths that would be prevented by the initial (small) use of vaccines. I don’t know how true this is because I don’t know what the situation is with vaccine stockpiles, which could change the analysis.
    • db48x 6y ago
      Exactly. I bet the Gantt chart for this is pretty big and complicated, with lots of work by multiple groups going on simultaneously. I bet the work started a year ago, doing things like deciding which other manufacturing activities they would halt or slow if they had a viable vaccine, or if they would open new manufacturing facilities. I just hope that they didn't waste too much time making Gantt charts.
• civilized 6y ago
  Not to mention quietly sitting on the electronic submission because it was missing the CD, without notifying the sender of the missing requirement. My company is full of these kinds of slackers. They always seem to be ready with some feeble excuse like this for why something isn't being worked on. They're not fooling anyone.
  • db48x 6y ago
    Yes, that's the cherry on top. They were clearly much too busy ignoring incomplete applications to send that email.