Let's hope they get it and get it administered , quickly
EU vaccine role out.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - AstraZeneca Plc has told the European Union it expects to deliver less than half the COVID-19 vaccines it was contracted to supply in the second quarter.
The EU official, who is directly involved in talks with the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker, said the company had told the bloc during internal meetings that it “would deliver less than 90 million doses in the second quarter.”
AstraZeneca’s contract with the EU, which was leaked last week, showed the company had committed to delivering 180 million doses to the 27-nation bloc in the second quarter the
official told Reuters on Tuesday
Exclusive: AstraZeneca to miss second-quarter EU vaccine supply target by half - EU official
AstraZeneca Plc has told the European Union it expects to deliver less than half the COVID-19 vaccines it was contracted to supply in the second quarter, an EU official told Reuters on Tuesday.
www.reuters.com
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Sceptical Europeans turn up noses at AstraZeneca Covid vaccine
Oliver Moody, Jack Parrock, Adam Sage, Tom Kington
Thursday February 25 2021, 12.01am, The Times
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Germany has used 15 per cent of the 1.4 million doses delivered
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The rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in Europe is being hampered by bureaucratic glitches and public suspicion driven by some leaders’ scepticism.
Germany has used 15 per cent of the 1.4 million doses delivered. A poll suggested half the population would rather wait than receive what an eminent virologist called a second-class vaccine.
The backlog in Berlin is so large that the city government is contemplating administering surplus shots to homeless people. Michael Müller, the mayor, has told those who turn their noses up at the jab not to “waste their chance”.
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An AstraZeneca vaccination centre in Berlin is fielding 400 appointments a day despite having a capacity for 3,800.
Supplies of vaccines to the EU have begun to pick up to the point where 75 per cent of the bloc’s adults may be inoculated by the end of August, a month ahead of schedule, according to Airfinity, a data company based in London. Yet to reach this target governments must find ways to administer stockpiles more rapidly and persuade their populations to trust the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Several EU states, including France, Germany, Poland and Italy, have declined to give the jab to older people because of the lack of early clinical trial data supporting its efficacy in over-55s. Subsequent studies from countries that have begun using the vaccine, including the UK, have shown it provides substantial protection for adults of all ages.
The scientific message has also been mangled through hostile briefing. President Macron inaccurately said the jab was “quasi-ineffective” for older adults. A German newspaper suggested officials believed the jab prevented only 8 per cent of infections in this age group
The German tabloid Bild told Britons “We envy you!” amid vaccine disarray
European leaders are now trying to restore faith. Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, told the Augsburger Allgemeine in Bavaria that the vaccine was “just as safe as the products from BioNTech/Pfizer or Moderna”. Jens Spahn, the German health minister, said he would gladly be injected with the AstraZeneca vaccine.
There are signs that the message has yet to fully sink in. Reports in Belgium and parts of Germany indicate that large numbers of people offered AstraZeneca shots have failed to turn up. The French health ministry said it would launch a public campaign to overcome the vaccine’s “image deficit”. Yesterday it allowed doctors to use it on members of the public between 50 and 64 but less than half of GPs have ordered doses. The scepticism is not universal: in Italy there are few reports of no-shows.
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In Germany, where 6.4 per cent of the population have received a first shot of a vaccine, frustration is building. Yesterday Bild, the country’s bestselling newspaper, published a front page on the UK’s vaccination successes with the headline: “Dear Brits, we envy you.”
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Sceptical Europeans turn up noses at AstraZeneca Covid vaccine
Oliver Moody, Jack Parrock, Adam Sage, Tom Kington
Thursday February 25 2021, 12.01am, The Times
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Germany has used 15 per cent of the 1.4 million doses delivered
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The rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in Europe is being hampered by bureaucratic glitches and public suspicion driven by some leaders’ scepticism.
Germany has used 15 per cent of the 1.4 million doses delivered. A poll suggested half the population would rather wait than receive what an eminent virologist called a second-class vaccine.
The backlog in Berlin is so large that the city government is contemplating administering surplus shots to homeless people. Michael Müller, the mayor, has told those who turn their noses up at the jab not to “waste their chance”.
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An AstraZeneca vaccination centre in Berlin is fielding 400 appointments a day despite having a capacity for 3,800.
Supplies of vaccines to the EU have begun to pick up to the point where 75 per cent of the bloc’s adults may be inoculated by the end of August, a month ahead of schedule, according to Airfinity, a data company based in London. Yet to reach this target governments must find ways to administer stockpiles more rapidly and persuade their populations to trust the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Several EU states, including France, Germany, Poland and Italy, have declined to give the jab to older people because of the lack of early clinical trial data supporting its efficacy in over-55s. Subsequent studies from countries that have begun using the vaccine, including the UK, have shown it provides substantial protection for adults of all ages.
The scientific message has also been mangled through hostile briefing. President Macron inaccurately said the jab was “quasi-ineffective” for older adults. A German newspaper suggested officials believed the jab prevented only 8 per cent of infections in this age group
The German tabloid Bild told Britons “We envy you!” amid vaccine disarray
European leaders are now trying to restore faith. Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, told the Augsburger Allgemeine in Bavaria that the vaccine was “just as safe as the products from BioNTech/Pfizer or Moderna”. Jens Spahn, the German health minister, said he would gladly be injected with the AstraZeneca vaccine.
There are signs that the message has yet to fully sink in. Reports in Belgium and parts of Germany indicate that large numbers of people offered AstraZeneca shots have failed to turn up. The French health ministry said it would launch a public campaign to overcome the vaccine’s “image deficit”. Yesterday it allowed doctors to use it on members of the public between 50 and 64 but less than half of GPs have ordered doses. The scepticism is not universal: in Italy there are few reports of no-shows.
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In Germany, where 6.4 per cent of the population have received a first shot of a vaccine, frustration is building. Yesterday Bild, the country’s bestselling newspaper, published a front page on the UK’s vaccination successes with the headline: “Dear Brits, we envy you.”
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Hope so, this is not good,
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - AstraZeneca Plc has told the European Union it expects to deliver less than half the COVID-19 vaccines it was contracted to supply in the second quarter.
The EU official, who is directly involved in talks with the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker, said the company had told the bloc during internal meetings that it “would deliver less than 90 million doses in the second quarter.”
AstraZeneca’s contract with the EU, which was leaked last week, showed the company had committed to delivering 180 million doses to the 27-nation bloc in the second quarter the
official told Reuters on Tuesday
Exclusive: AstraZeneca to miss second-quarter EU vaccine supply target by half - EU official
AstraZeneca Plc has told the European Union it expects to deliver less than half the COVID-19 vaccines it was contracted to supply in the second quarter, an EU official told Reuters on Tuesday.
Well if The Times article is correct why all the fuss about the AZ vaccine when no European Person wants to use it? How odd. Or is this article fake news LBP? Was this Napoleon's aim all the while?
Oh yes and we should not forget the EU declaration of war - launching the NI Protocol to secure supplies of the AZ vaccine. Even odder. Muddled?
Could be a lot of important people in the EU responsible for a lot of deaths. This could make some of the British cock ups seem trivial.
It's a hell of a thing for a political leader to put out inaccurate statements which put it's citizens off having a jab that could save their life.
It's a hell of a thing for a political leader to put out inaccurate statements which put it's citizens off having a jab that could save their life.
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Not like you to confuse the issue.
Fine in the under 65s, I'm 62 and waiting my turn. New data has been delivered, this is being checked, may result in new recommendations.
The EU rectified it's intentions in a few hours, unlike Boris passing legislation to break international law as Brandon Lewis stated in the house of commons, yet the DUP and UK stand by their intention to use it.
As the contracts have been revealed it shows the vaccine companies have used ' best case' delivery schedules that they can't keep .
Meanwhile wealthy countries hoard vaccine and poor countries have none.
Devil take the hindmost!
AZ signed a contract with the EU knowing they were going to sign ( the next day) a contract with the UK that broke this!
Who got blamed? Well the EU as , in UK eyes, they are always wrong. Have to keep justifying the way the vote went.
They've given your jab to the czechs
The Czech Republic is to receive 100,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine from France, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has confirmed.
As we mentioned earlier, the Czech Republic is currently dealing with a sharp rise in cases. According to Our World in Data, it has more new cases per million in the past seven days than other country in the world.
On Thursday, lawmakers will meet to discuss the tightening of restrictions in the country.
France said it was examining requests from other nations to “borrow” doses that would then be sent back in April, Reuters news agency reports. The Czech Republic has already received doses from Israel.
Presently, the Czech Republic has only vaccinated 600,000 people in a country of 10.7 million.
Babis said he had reached out to other countries for assistance.
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I'm fine with Pfizer, Moderna, J+J, AZ if that's take it or leave it
Talking to an elderly French gentlemen yesterday. He said he's got heart problems and type 1 diabetes and no way is he having that poison injected! Reckoned it will kill him! He'd walked 9 kilometers to prune some fruit trees but needed a lift home as he thought curfew would beat him back!
I wouldn't have it if we didn't go anywhereI'm fine with Pfizer, Moderna, J+J, AZ if that's take it or leave it
Talking to an elderly French gentlemen yesterday. He said he's got heart problems and type 1 diabetes and no way is he having that poison injected! Reckoned it will kill him! He'd walked 9 kilometers to prune some fruit trees but needed a lift home as he thought curfew would beat him back!
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FIL said hospitals are 99.9% full, Germans seem on top of the job at the mo, so have offered the CR hospital places. Good to see European countries working together
.I say they let folks stay in hospital for no good reason
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I'm fine with Pfizer, Moderna, J+J, AZ if that's take it or leave it
Talking to an elderly French gentlemen yesterday. He said he's got heart problems and type 1 diabetes and no way is he having that poison injected! Reckoned it will kill him! He'd walked 9 kilometers to prune some fruit trees but needed a lift home as he thought curfew would beat him back!
You did t give a lift!!!
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I think the Germans took some patients from Portugal too .FIL said hospitals are 99.9% full, Germans seem on top of the job at the mo, so have offered the CR hospital places. Good to see European countries working together
I say they let folks stay in hospital for no good reason
It does show how fragile the EU is though .
As well as .I must admit, I thought they had bought a load of Sputnik
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More like it shows how fragile EU residents are, clogging up hospital beds with a sniffle
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Funny,
On one thread you reckon you've had it. ( Not tested for antibodies though)
On another, no problems taking it!
????
Fairly sure I've had it , only having the vaccine for travel , may have said no problem but quite a few recipients are noticing side effects for 24 -48 hours , quite bad some of them
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Mrs lbp thought she'd got it, Bronchitis, tested negative, as did us.