And only the old/vulnerable/health workers needs it it will be fine. The cost of the vaccine is not high anyways. But having to vaccine everyone every year is a big organizational challenge.
Of course they do. But a lot of people don't get the flu shot annually. Especially young people. Anyways if we now needs two shots (flu + COVID) annually, it requires twice the resources, isn't it? I don't think they can just merge both and inject them at the same time.
They probably can. I expect the flu shot is going to move from being live or inactivated virus vaccines to mRNA. Once you've got the infrastructure built, the mRNA vaccines should be cheaper and easier to make, way faster, and much easier to tailor to new strains. Flu shots are already usually mixtures of several vaccines, so adding a couple more shouldn't be much of a problem. Has to be tested of course.
It doesn't take much longer to give 2 injections instead of 1. But yes, even an extra 30 seconds per person does add up. Vaccinating the entire US population, 30 seconds each, 8 hours per day, spread over 2 months required over 5000 dedicated employees. But in the grand scheme of things, that's not that much. Hell, the US has twice that many CVS stores alone. And even if you multiple that figure by 10...5 minutes extra per patient...the US has 88000 pharmacies, so that's less than 1 employee per pharmacy.
I don't think it's always a good idea to administer two vaccines at the same time. If you have a complication, which vaccine is to blame? It would definitely requires more studies before doing it on a large scale. So at first it's likely going to be 2 appointments anyways. Both may not be ready at the same time also.
I already had something like 3-4 vaccines at the same time (before traveling). They were likely well tested for many years individually so considered safe enough to put together, but even then it
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As long as not everyone needs it (Score:1)
And only the old/vulnerable/health workers needs it it will be fine. The cost of the vaccine is not high anyways.
But having to vaccine everyone every year is a big organizational challenge.
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But having to vaccine everyone every year is a big organizational challenge.
Because nobody has any experience with distributing annual vaccines?
Re:As long as not everyone needs it (Score:2)
Of course they do. But a lot of people don't get the flu shot annually. Especially young people.
Anyways if we now needs two shots (flu + COVID) annually, it requires twice the resources, isn't it? I don't think they can just merge both and inject them at the same time.
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They probably can. I expect the flu shot is going to move from being live or inactivated virus vaccines to mRNA. Once you've got the infrastructure built, the mRNA vaccines should be cheaper and easier to make, way faster, and much easier to tailor to new strains. Flu shots are already usually mixtures of several vaccines, so adding a couple more shouldn't be much of a problem. Has to be tested of course.
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It doesn't take much longer to give 2 injections instead of 1. But yes, even an extra 30 seconds per person does add up. Vaccinating the entire US population, 30 seconds each, 8 hours per day, spread over 2 months required over 5000 dedicated employees. But in the grand scheme of things, that's not that much. Hell, the US has twice that many CVS stores alone. And even if you multiple that figure by 10...5 minutes extra per patient...the US has 88000 pharmacies, so that's less than 1 employee per pharmacy.
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I don't think it's always a good idea to administer two vaccines at the same time. If you have a complication, which vaccine is to blame?
It would definitely requires more studies before doing it on a large scale. So at first it's likely going to be 2 appointments anyways. Both may not be ready at the same time also.
I already had something like 3-4 vaccines at the same time (before traveling). They were likely well tested for many years individually so considered safe enough to put together, but even then it