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Pandemic flu doesn't have to be seasonal and we don't produce enough to actually vaccinate everyone who would want it, and even in a pandemic situation it would
by roywiggins 4y ago
Pandemic flu doesn't have to be seasonal and we don't produce enough to actually vaccinate everyone who would want it, and even in a pandemic situation it would be a challenge to ramp up production.
"Should an outbreak of pandemic influenza occur today, the doses available for global populations within this time frame would be well short of the need, given the state of
preparedness and the level of existing capacity. Our estimate is that in a “best-case” scenario, only 1.2 billion courses (2.4 billion doses) could be produced from current capacity within six months, and current stockpiles are limited."
https://www.path.org/resources/influenza-vaccine-strategies-for-broad-global-access/ https://www.path.org/resources/influenza-vaccine-strategies-...
- kuhewa 4y agoWe've had MERS and swine flu and C19 since that was published (2007), I imagine capacity may have improved since. And ultimately (cynically) that's just a function of the fact that maintaining a stockpile (or the capacity to quickly produce a world's supply) is not a goal of any individual country, anyone living in a country that is 1. Rich or 2. Houses pharma companies or their manufacturing facilities will probably be covered.
- roywiggins 4y agoThis report does say that things have improved since then: https://api.healthsecuritynet.org/get/file/9789241515634-eng.pdf?id=1137 https://api.healthsecuritynet.org/get/file/9789241515634-eng...