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Heute in welt.de: Hat Europa Fehler beim Impfstoffeinkauf gemacht? – Eine BilanzI don't understand...what you mean with "Starting the vaccination campaign is easy. But to continue it is a different thing."
Google Translate is your friendHeute in welt.de: Hat Europa Fehler beim Impfstoffeinkauf gemacht? – Eine Bilanz
Sorry for the message in German.
Me bad.
Not any more of a delay than has already happened. The drug companies are shipping directly to locations that the various states have given them. From there it goes to hospitals, clinics, etc. What the Biden administration can do is invoke the Defense Production Act and get suppliers to make as many vials, vaccine ingredients, etc. so the drug companies can ramp up production higher. Maybe order more refrigerators using the money in the COVID relief bill.Has anyone written yet if there will be a delay because of the changeover of administrations?
The vaccine is licenced on very strict conditions, and failure to adhere to those conditions mean that it cannot be used. The defendant knew this, which is why he deliberately left them out of the fridge overnight, thus deliberately rendering them as useless -- that is, not able to be used to vaccinate people -- as if he had contaminated them with poison.Wisconsin Public Radio reports Gerol couldn't submit proof to the court that the drugs had been damaged and therefore a crime had been committed.
"And apparently the only way they can discover that or tell us that is if they test them. It's unknown how much time that will take," Gerol said, according to the outlet.
The Moderna vials must be stored between 36 to 46 degrees Fahrenheit. They can remain effective for up to 12 hours if left at room temperature. Beyond that, the drug maker says it is no longer effective.
Also historical conspiracy theory nonsense popularised by the Da Vinci Code which is a novelisation of some actual crackpot theories, to the extent the originators of the theory sued Dan Brown for plagiarism. And, or course, the whole business of discovering that current events were, in fact, prophesied in the Bible. Or the Bermuda Triangle, of course, or identifying the Whitechapel murderer.See, all this crap starts with BS like "Ancient Aliens" and "America Unearthed" and pop-conspiracy trash that people justify putting and leaving on the air and on the net because it's "harmless entertainment".
It's NOT harmless. These shows and websites literally alter how people think, and give them something very close to an artificially-induced reference delusion. Conspiratorial thinking is....not sure what you would call it. "Internally contagious"? Basically, believing in one brand of pop-conspiracy garbage literally makes you more susceptible to believing other brands, until next thing you know what started as a "harmless" interest in pulp-TV pseudodocumentaries about government UFO coverups leads you down a path where you end up in prison for sabotaging vaccines in the middle of a freaking global pandemic because YouTube told you the vaccines are a conspiracy to turn people into freaking alien-human hybrids.
Intelligent, educated people fall into this trap, not just idiots.
So we need to adjust our expectations, and parts of the media need to spend less time trying to find who is to blame. (Saw a hit piece on Andrew Cuomo on Tufekci's twitter feed. She dislikes Cuomo. Waste of energy reading that article. Plans were made in New York to distribute basically unlimited amounts of vaccine county by county without need for cold-chain distribution. In reality they don't have unlimited supplies, time, or adequate refrigeration, so they have to improvise.)Maybe only to be expected, but depressing nevertheless
The burst of optimism that arrived with approvals of new vaccines – encouraged by unrealistic expectations raised by politicians – is colliding with the reality of the challenge of vaccinating a large part of the world’s population.
First question: assuming that distribution is up to individual states, what sort of extra funding is available from the federal government?So we need to adjust our expectations, and parts of the media need to spend less time trying to find who is to blame. (Saw a hit piece on Andrew Cuomo on Tufekci's twitter feed. She dislikes Cuomo. Waste of energy reading that article. Plans were made in New York to distribute basically unlimited amounts of vaccine county by county without need for cold-chain distribution. In reality they don't have unlimited supplies, time, or adequate refrigeration, so they have to improvise.)
I wish the news media would admit they share some of the responsibility for unrealistic expectations.
The Guardian article notes that the problems are occurring across the world. The article you posted is about how this is a difficult problem, and people have unrealistic expectations.First question: assuming that distribution is up to individual states, what sort of extra funding is available from the federal government?
There is funding in the bill that just passed last week, so the earmarked money came after the roll-out started. Before that, there were no specific funds, but a number of state and federal agencies were using their existing funds for distribution.First question: assuming that distribution is up to individual states, what sort of extra funding is available from the federal government?
From what I've read about the vaccination programme over here, it's a huge logistical effort, and we have the advantage that it's all coordinated and funded nationally, and delivered through a unified National Health Service (and distances are far smaller than in the US, of course, and population density far higher, so everyone's easier to reach).
When will vaccines be available for the general population?
We anticipate vaccines will be available for the general population through our more than 9,000 stores sometime in spring 2021.
I get my medicine, and get my flu-shot, from Walgreens. The quotes above are from their website.What will be the cost of the vaccine?
The COVID-19 vaccine will be available at no cost to those receiving it.
Sometimes you just have to eat in the car. *shrugs*I actually hadn't thought to see if they do take out. Of course, the only real problem with take-out, especially with fried foods, is that it's usually cold and nasty by the time I get it home to eat it.