A colleague of mine told me this morning that a doctor's surgery local to them provided the excess vaccine first doses to an NHS call centre near the surgery - her sister works at the NHS call centre, and received a vaccination dose. Heaps better than it going in the bin.
I think it might be due to inadequate bureaucracy to record who's had it. You get to the end of the day and have a few people who didn't turn up for their jab and the vaccine is EOL so without proper reporting it goes in the bin. I read wastage was around 1% so it's not really going to make the difference at this stage.
My sister told me that her hospital, in Middlesbrough, administered all excess vaccine doses to staff members rather than bin them - she has to wait for the AstraZeneca one though, because she's violently allergic to penicillin.
I'm watching https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/ and it's depressing that the vaccine rollout is so slow in some countries. My mother lives in Ireland and is over 80 but only 15,000 have been vaccinated there and it is one of the lowest rates in Europe. Her old friends who still live in London have all had at least one shot by now.
I'm glad it isn't happening everywhere. I would be more pleased still if it weren't happening anywhere. In other news, while 1,564 COVID-19-positive people died in the UK yesterday, approximately 63,082,000 people did not! Load of fuss over nothing, innit?(!)
It didn't use to happen, it doesn't always happen, it isn't happening everywhere, it may not happen elsewhere. Point?
Anyway anyone got a handle on what the hell is going on with Vaccines outside the UK. I understood that the EU had delayed approval so all countries could start at the same time, and now there are huge disparities in the rollout. I know France has issues, with a lot of anti-vax nonsense and they wanted to support the Sanofi vaccine which isn't anywhere near ready, but the whole situation seems to be a bit unimpressive.
But by that measure, we shouldn't address any single cause of death because any given cause of death makes up only a fraction of the total number of deaths.
You make it sound like a bad idea. C'mon the world is overpopulated already......... But seriously (although I'm not against a cull to solve the population issue) No I'm not against treating everything and anything we can, although granted I wish we'd focus more on quality of life rather than length, but everyone is getting their panties in a bunch, in context Covid is a mere boo boo. Yes we should defend against it, wear masks, distance, get the vaccine, but don't let it give you nightmares, cancer will get most of in the end.
