General COVID-19 Vaccine Discussion

[Toula92122]

My 75 yo friend in London has had her vaccination and she told me this morning she's going to the US to visit family for 6 weeks from mid April. She thinks she's indestructible.

Read an article in the NY Times recently how now that the oldies are getting their shots they are out there travelling making up for lost time. They feel the sand is running out in their hourglass and they are going to do all the things they held off doing. I think CV has woken up a lot of people to the thought that maybe tomorrow is not guaranteed. This group which is probably one of the most affluent, might be the key to economic recovery.

Personally I would probably hold off any travel to a hot CV zone for now, however I think if one is smart they could travel. I just would not travel to a zone full of CV deniers.

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The FDA has granted Emergency Authorization for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine
BBC
This is massive!!! It’s a single shot vaccine.

Australia did not buy any of the JnJ product did we?

 

[Anna]

The FDA has granted Emergency Authorization for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine
BBC
This is massive!!! It’s a single shot vaccine.

Is it massive for Australia do you think?

 

[Pushka]

Australia did not buy any of the JnJ product did we?

I dont think so but at least if US is getting it, others will get it and that will open up the world.

 

[RooFlyer]

If we can’t do 60k vaccinations in 3 weeks what makes you think we can meet the stated target? 25 million people * 2 jabs is 50 million jabs over 30 or so weeks. That 1.7M per week, the number just don’t add up, even if we assume only 70-80% take up that’s means we need to start immunisation at a vastly increased rate than now, how do we scale from 20k a week to 50 to 60 times that!

Again, you might like to at least consider that a) there is limited supplies of the vaccine in Australia right now, so even if they wanted to go hell-for-leather, they couldn’t; b) there is a very limited number of vaccination points in the country at the moment because of the special temperature requirements of the Pfizer vaccine, c) it’s not entirely unreasonable that doing something never done before is started slowly and cautiously and d) when AZ is available, the number of vaccination points will go from a handful to many hundreds, down to the GP clinic level.

By all means, go the full doom preacher and say targets won’t be met etc etc. Cheap shot, I reckon.

 

[Princess Fiona]

Is it massive for Australia do you think?

Yes!! It’s one of the COVAX vaccines. Anything that brings mass vaccination worldwide is good for Australia

 

[DC3]

Not much information provided on the arrival of the first AstraZeneca in Oz today. Would these be the doses that are destined for pharmacies/doctors/clinics?

The first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID vaccine have arrived. What happens next?

Hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses have been transported to a storage facility in Western Sydney, where they are being kept under tight security.

www.abc.net.au

 

[OATEK]

Mrs FB getting hers on Friday, I'll likely not be far behind once I sort out the snafu with the GP. Will be good to be in the group of people who might be allowed to then enter some countries around the world with a vaccine passport; although the question remains..... will you be OK with the first jab, or require both?

My son-in-law got his pfizer jab on Friday in London (history of asthma). Daughter thinks late March for herself.

 

[Pushka]

Thank goodness - the first batch of AZ has arrived here.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Johnson and Johnson vaccine: FDA finds the single-shot jab safe

US regulators say Johnson and Johnson's single-shot vaccine is safe, and could be approved in days.

www.bbc.com

 

[Flashback]

My son-in-law got his pfizer jab on Friday in London (history of asthma). Daughter thinks late March for herself.

What degree of asthma does he have? Mild? Not so mild? Mild, but on steroi_s, etc.?

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Not much information provided on the arrival of the first AstraZeneca in Oz today. Would these be the doses that are destined for pharmacies/doctors/clinics?

The first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID vaccine have arrived. What happens next?

Hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses have been transported to a storage facility in Western Sydney, where they are being kept under tight security.

www.abc.net.au

I think there are 700,000 in phase 1a, so it does make giving straight to pharmacies/clinics doubtful.

There will be obligatory sampling by TGA before releasing it for use. I think Pfizer took about a week, so hopefully this one takes less time.

 

[DC3]

The US Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency authorization for Johnson & Johnson's single-dose Covid-19 vaccine:

FDA authorizes Johnson & Johnson's single-dose Covid-19 vaccine

 

[drron]

When Australia was in the market for vaccines both Moderna and J & J refused to negotiate hence Pfizer and Oxford.

 

[OATEK]

What degree of asthma does he have? Mild? Not so mild? Mild, but on steroi_s, etc.?

Was on the preventive until quite recently, but has not been taking anything most of the last year. But the computer said yes, so he gets the jab early.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

The FDA has granted Emergency Authorization for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine
BBC
This is massive!!! It’s a single shot vaccine.

Great news.

Though your link did not work for me. Here is the FDA announcement from the FDA themselves.

“The authorization of this vaccine expands the availability of vaccines, the best medical prevention method for COVID-19, to help us in the fight against this pandemic, which has claimed over half a million lives in the United States,” said Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock, M.D. “The FDA, through our open and transparent scientific review process, has now authorized three COVID-19 vaccines with the urgency called for during this pandemic, using the agency’s rigorous standards for safety, effectiveness and manufacturing quality needed to support emergency use authorization.”​

FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization for Third COVID-19 Vaccine

The FDA issued an EUA for the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine, allowing the vaccine to be distributed in the U.S for use in individuals 18 years of age and older.

www.fda.gov

 

[lovetravellingoz]

I think there are 700,000 in phase 1a, so it does make giving straight to pharmacies/clinics doubtful.

There will be obligatory sampling by TGA before releasing it for use. I think Pfizer took about a week, so hopefully this one takes less time.

1a is "up to 1.4m". So the 300,000 AZ doses today , plus what Pfizer is already here still leaves one million odd more to be delivered/manufactured before 1b starts.

14.8 million in 1b

So a lot of doses before it becomes more generally available.

 

[Pushka]

Good graphics here

 

[Must...Fly!]

My 75 yo friend in London has had her vaccination and she told me this morning she's going to the US to visit family for 6 weeks from mid April. She thinks she's indestructible.

Good on her. Life is for living.

 

[stryker]

When Australia was in the market for vaccines both Moderna and J & J refused to negotiate hence Pfizer and Oxford.

Doesn't surprise me at all. What more needs to be said?

 

[Pushka]

Doesn't surprise me at all. What more needs to be said?

Well, I don't know