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Expect to get vaccinated several times a year. No kidding. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vaccines-idUSKCN2AV0H6 https://www.reuters.

Expect to get vaccinated several times a year. No kidding. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vaccines-idUSKCN2AV0H6 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vac... "The European Union aims to increase the region’s COVID-19 vaccine production capacity to 2-3 billion doses per year by the end of 2021" Hint: The EU has about 400 Million people

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jauntbox 6y ago
Isn't that because a lot of their vaccines get shipped all over the world? We need doses for ~7B people in total. I don't see anything there that says they're planning on administering multiple vaccination rounds per person.
- newdude116 6y ago
  https://www.euractiv.com/section/coronavirus/news/eu-hopes-to-produce-up-to-3-bn-vaccine-doses-a-year-by-end-of-2021/ https://www.euractiv.com/section/coronavirus/news/eu-hopes-t... 3 bn PER year. Trust me. You may have to get vaccinated every year. Don't get me wrong, the strategy makes sense. Still not very encouraging.
corty 6y ago
Well, two shots a year, probably, maybe less. The real reason the EU needs this kind of capacity is that the current EU vaccination campaign is going very poorly. Most of the population will only get vaccinated late in summer and autumn, so the yearly capacity needs to be appropriate to at least get it done this year and before the next flu season. Oh, and the EU produces vaccines for a lot of others like UK, Israel and the US, as well as most third-world-countries. Imports into the EU are neglegible.
kyboren 6y ago
Hint: The world has more than 400 million people.
- newdude116 6y ago
  Ok. What are you trying to say? Hint 2: ""Quite often vaccines are more effective than natural immunity but we might need to vaccinate everybody every year, or two or three, for quite some time and maybe forever." https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-will-we-need-an-annual-vaccine-booster-12205644 https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-will-we-need-an-annual-v... Sorry to break the news to you but it is unlikely the world will be what it was.
jpollock 6y ago
It's an export market, and the vaccines they are using require 2 doses.
ceejayoz 6y ago
There’s a world of nearly eight billion people to vaccinate out there, and the manufacturing capacity may be useful when we start playing with mRNA vaccines for things like malaria.

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jauntbox 6y ago

Isn't that because a lot of their vaccines get shipped all over the world? We need doses for ~7B people in total. I don't see anything there that says they're planning on administering multiple vaccination rounds per person.

newdude116 6y ago
https://www.euractiv.com/section/coronavirus/news/eu-hopes-to-produce-up-to-3-bn-vaccine-doses-a-year-by-end-of-2021/ https://www.euractiv.com/section/coronavirus/news/eu-hopes-t... 3 bn PER year. Trust me. You may have to get vaccinated every year. Don't get me wrong, the strategy makes sense. Still not very encouraging.

corty 6y ago

Well, two shots a year, probably, maybe less. The real reason the EU needs this kind of capacity is that the current EU vaccination campaign is going very poorly. Most of the population will only get vaccinated late in summer and autumn, so the yearly capacity needs to be appropriate to at least get it done this year and before the next flu season. Oh, and the EU produces vaccines for a lot of others like UK, Israel and the US, as well as most third-world-countries. Imports into the EU are neglegible.

kyboren 6y ago

Hint: The world has more than 400 million people.

newdude116 6y ago
Ok. What are you trying to say? Hint 2: ""Quite often vaccines are more effective than natural immunity but we might need to vaccinate everybody every year, or two or three, for quite some time and maybe forever." https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-will-we-need-an-annual-vaccine-booster-12205644 https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-will-we-need-an-annual-v... Sorry to break the news to you but it is unlikely the world will be what it was.

jpollock 6y ago

It's an export market, and the vaccines they are using require 2 doses.

ceejayoz 6y ago

There’s a world of nearly eight billion people to vaccinate out there, and the manufacturing capacity may be useful when we start playing with mRNA vaccines for things like malaria.