How Many Vaccines In Wales Today ?

[City123]

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The reporter on Wales Today pointed out that we need to average about 19,000 a day from here to meet the February target. Drakeford needs to get all of the centres, GPs and mobile units 100% operational pretty quick.
Next weeks a massive week for him.

We're up to about 11,000 a day already and I imagine that will only increase as more centres are opened

[Harry Paget Flashman]

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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

I for one as a non labour voter thinks he's performed well throughout the crisis.

[lisvaneblue]

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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.

[Allez Allez Allez]

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No-ones immunity will have expired in 12 weeks.

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Apologies, I didn't realise there were clinical trials that showed that. What is the efficacy of the Pfizer vaccine after 12 weeks? And the Oxford one?

[the other bob wilson]

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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.

[light up the darkness]

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https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-every-uk-adult-could-be-vaccinated-by-mid-july-if-these-figures-are-anything-to-go-by-12188909?inApp=true

Every UK adult could be vaccinated by mid-July - if these figures are anything to go by


For ordinary citizens with all the lack of clarity about which story if any is the correct one it’s no wonder people are losing faith in the pronouncements of the politicians

[Cleve van Leef]

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Mid July 2022 in Wales if we’re lucky!

[BLUETIT]

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I for one as a non labour voter thinks he's performed well throughout the crisis.

Now I know where the saying "There's always one" comes from :facepalm:

[life on mars]

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Its a pity Wales didn't have some time to plan and prepare for this moment .

All this work on the vaccine just appeared from nowhere.

[life on mars]

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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!

Folk have conveniently forgot Wales poor NHS before all this and then chuck in transport and education performance it suggests were okay putting up with it as long as we have a particular political party in power , no opposition , no challenges to under performance is unhealthy , same in Scotland , no one talks about their methadone and drug problems which are appalling.

[xsnaggle]

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In all fairness although I have looked I cannot find any direct reference to Drakeford actually saying this., other than the twitter comment on here by a third person attached to a still of him in a briefing.

Can anyone actually find the clip of him if it was said on air or give a link to the the written statment?
Or is it deliberate fake news?

[LeningradCowboy]

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In all fairness although I have looked I cannot find any direct reference to Drakeford actually saying this., other than the twitter comment on here by a third person attached to a still of him in a briefing.

Can anyone actually find the clip of him if it was said on air or give a link to the the written statment?
Or is it deliberate fake news?

Full quotes here pic.twitter.com/m9xG0kK8Ne

— Politics For All (@PoliticsForAlI) January 15, 2021

[xsnaggle]

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Full quotes here pic.twitter.com/m9xG0kK8Ne

— Politics For All (@PoliticsForAlI) January 15, 2021

Thanks, wouldn't like to try to beat anyone without a stick!!

[LeningradCowboy]

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55684894

GPs in north Wales are being advised to consider delaying Covid-19 vaccine appointments early next week due to a hold-up affecting about 26,000 doses.

[Delbert]

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Apologies, I didn't realise there were clinical trials that showed that. What is the efficacy of the Pfizer vaccine after 12 weeks? And the Oxford one?

The Joint Committee on Vaccinations and Immunisations (JCVI) believe both vaccines are likely to offer good enough protection with a 12 week interval between doses.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prioritising-the-first-covid-19-vaccine-dose-jcvi-statement/optimising-the-covid-19-vaccination-programme-for-maximum-short-term-impact