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According to the letter we received, these are the numbers in Wales:---------
1) Older adults resident in a care home and care home workers (40,000)
2) Those 80 years of age and over (174,000)
3) health and social care workers (152,000)
4) Those aged 75-79 (127,ooo)
5) Those aged 70-74 (253,000)
6) Those aged 65-69 (166,000)
7) Moderate-risk adults under 65 (338,000)
8) Those aged 60-64 (126,000)
9) Those aged 55-59 (151,ooo)
10) those aged 50-54 (163,000)
11) Rest (1,092, 000)
112973 vaccinations as at yesterday 11602 more than the day before.
So ramping up, may get to Thornhill in next couple of years.
The First Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford has stated Wales are slowing down the delivery of the Pfizer vaccine so they can space it out evenly over 6 weeks, rather than administer it as soon as possible pic.twitter.com/Sl4xiS6qUc
— Politics For All (@PoliticsForAlI) January 15, 2021
That is a stunningly stupid thing to say publicly, even if they have to do it for logistical or any other reason.
Also why do that have to have a "Trail" of Pharmasies giving injections, and why is it only starting today or later? It should be up and running.
I cannot find the live vid of he speaking. Does anyone have a link. It seems he was only talking about use of the pfiser vaccine not the oxford one, but if that is so andso many people can misinterpret what he said it is still stupid
I think the confidence of the Welsh public in Drakeford’s ability to roll out the vaccine is dwindling by the minute.
“We won’t get another delivery of the Pfizer vaccine until the very end of January or maybe the beginning of February, so that 250,000 doses of vaccine has got to last us six weeks”.
What on earth is he saying here? If you’ve got a quarter of a million doses of vaccine then what you do is stick them in the arms of high risk Welsh people as soon as humanly possible 24/7 and if you’ve used them all up in a few days then that is a very good thing!
Woah, hang on. You have to remember that there were people vaccinated on December 8th who had their second doses cancelled. These people will need a second vaccine within a few weeks and the Welsh Government has decided not to play the lottery by mixing vaccines. So, this has to be managed. It's all well and good to say "give 250,000 doses as quick as possible", but in 12 weeks time have people whose immunity has expired because they have not had a second dose because of shortages.
He couldn't inspire an alcoholic to drink a glass of whiskey, and he'd probably have to have another bloody meeting to do that
It's a very true old saying but when all is said and done, there's a lot more said than done
That sums up this bloody idiot
If you are over 90 you might well have got the jab today in cardiff....
No-ones immunity will have expired in 12 weeks.
The next delivery of Pfizer vaccine is due in late January or early February.
There are only a tiny number of people who received vaccination in the 1st half of December and they won’t be due their second vaccination until potentially the 1st half of March.
Meanwhile somewhere in Wales 250,000 doses of vaccine sit on a shelf.
They have made a decision to use the Oxford vaccine in GP surgeries etc whilst using the Pfizer jab at mass vaccination centres. Seems there aren't enough of these to use up the Pfizer vaccine so unbelievably it sits on the shelf. People who have already had a jab will in reality be in the queue for a second from around Mid Feb ( around 10 weeks as they can't leave it all to the last minute). So from then on an increasing volume of patients will be repeats, around 10,000 a week.
They have missed the opportunity to get as many vaccinated as soon as possible which was the logic in delaying the second dose.
As for immunity at 12 weeks, who knows? Pfizer have said that they cannot be responsible for the efficacy of their vaccine unless a repeat is given three weeks after the first dose.
As far as pharmacies are concerned, unless they can do a significant number of injections a day forget them. These vaccines have a 6 hour life once a dose has been taken from a vial, and the Oxford jab has 10 doses per vial and comes as a 10 vial box. The press compares it to the flu campaigns but it is nothing like the flu vaccine which comes as a ready to use single dose syringe, and they can do a couple a day.
Lots of speculation in the last few posts, but, with vaccines running behind schedule for the mid February target and now the WAG announcing it’s slowing down delivery of the Pfizer jab, the people of Wales deserve better than yesterday’s non explanation from the First Minister - maYbe I’m missing something, but what was said by Drakeford appears to run contrary to what we’ve been told previously.