Pfizer To Supply US With 100 Million More Vaccine Doses (bloomberg.com) 57
Pfizer and partner BioNTech agreed to supply an additional 100 million doses of their Covid-19 vaccine to the U.S., as the country seeks to widen its immunization program and revive its economy. From a report: The agreement brings the total number of doses to be delivered to the U.S. to 200 million, the companies said Wednesday in a statement. The drugmaker expects to deliver all the doses to U.S. vaccine and drug accelerator Operation Warp Speed by July 31. Countries around the world are seeking supplies of vaccine they hope will allow the reopening of schools and businesses and the resumption of travel. The U.K. has also begun administering doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech shot, and European drug authorities cleared it for use on Monday.
The U.S. has been working to expand supplies of the front-runner vaccine, in light of the drugmakers' commitments to other countries. Earlier this month, the U.S. exercised an option to buy 100 million additional vaccine doses from Moderna, doubling the number it has on order from that company to 200 million. Like Pfizer and BioNTech's vaccine, Moderna's is a two-shot regimen based on new technology known as messenger RNA, but it doesn't have to be stored at the same ultracold temperatures as the Pfizer-BioNTech shot.
The U.S. has been working to expand supplies of the front-runner vaccine, in light of the drugmakers' commitments to other countries. Earlier this month, the U.S. exercised an option to buy 100 million additional vaccine doses from Moderna, doubling the number it has on order from that company to 200 million. Like Pfizer and BioNTech's vaccine, Moderna's is a two-shot regimen based on new technology known as messenger RNA, but it doesn't have to be stored at the same ultracold temperatures as the Pfizer-BioNTech shot.
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That is some pretty impressive trolling there.
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Yes, also it's not news.
Because the Trump Adm. forgot to order them in the spring, they said that the US would have to wait 'til July and this confirms exactly that.
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Yes, what you wrote and so much more. There is far too much political wrangling.
Operation Warp Speed funded 8 companies, pre-buying doses from all of them except Pfizer which opted for a post-delivery payment. The goal was to bet on ALL the horses in the race to get development jumpstarted.
While we now have a deal with Pfizer for enough doses for 100 million people (originally a deal for doses for 50 million people), we also have a deal with Moderna for enough doses for 100 million people (originally the de
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They finally ordered them in August, and Pfizer offered contracts to purchase more in September, October, and again in November, which were allowed to expire until after the elections. Now we're waiting in line behind everyone else.
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So you're just going to make shit up? Go for it.
Re: Thanks, President Elect Biden (Score:2)
He could be Russian.
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Re:Thanks, President Elect Biden (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Thanks, President Elect Biden (Score:5, Informative)
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Re: Thanks, President Elect Biden (Score:2, Funny)
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I'm sure you don't care, but your info is just flat wrong. We, the US (5324/100k), passed Spain (3647/100k), France (3591/100k), and the UK (3153/100k) months ago. Yes, we're still behind Belgium (5367/100k), but we'll pass them at our current rate in 3 days.
You're also talking about countries which got hit early when little was known about the virus. People who compare the USA to France, Belgium, Spain or Italy are either clueless or dishonest.
Imagine fucking up a pandemic response even with the benefit of hindsight, that's where USA finds itself. Along with the UK, Sweden, and a whole lot of shithole nations which also tried to pretend the virus wasn't a thing.
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In order to find Covid cases, you need to test people for Covid, and America has a lot more than 4% of the total Covid testing. Most of Africa in particular is a bit of a black hole in terms of testing and there are a lot of people living there, but even Europe has been kind of lacking outside of the UK and a few other, mostly smaller, countries.
Re:Thanks, President Elect Biden (Score:5, Informative)
I guess that explains why so many countries are also having second waves, just like the US. Trump's incompetence was so legendary that it made dozens of other countries suffer just as we are.
Guess is the right word Trumpkin and you guessed wrong. The US has had 19M Corona cases so far, the entire rest of the planet stands at 60M cases. The US with 328M inhabitants has 19M cases and 332964 Corona deaths, Japan with 128M inhabitants stands at 203113 Corona cases and 2994 Corona deaths. The US has actually had more corona deaths than Japan has had total Corona cases and Japan not only has 1/3rd the population of the US, Japan is also considerably more densely populated than the US. If the remainder of the planet is a Corona basket case the USA is a full blown Corona dumpster fire.
Re:Thanks, President Elect Biden (Score:4, Insightful)
Why do you cherry pick Japan? Why not cherry pick some other country, like Belgium, or UK or Spain or France? Also why you compare the US to Japan is stupid anyway. They are nothing alike. By the way, you could compare Japan to many EU companies and come to the same conclusion. VIRUSES DON'T CARE WHO THE PRESIDENT IS.
I picked Japan because Japan it is a populous, densely populated industrialised country that shows pretty graphically what can be done if you don't have your head up your butt looking for conspiracy theories. Japan shows what competent leadership can do when you encourage people to sanitise their hands, socially distance, wear masks, track and trace and most importantly don't disband your pandemic reaction team. Japan has done everything that Trump has said you should not do and they have succeeded brilliantly. There are few better examples to highlight the utter incompetence, apathy, wilful ignorance and incompetence of the Trump administration. Even if you take the whole of the 500 million inhabitants of the EU as an example the US with its 328 million populations still looks like a dumpster fire by comparison. The the whole continent of Europe, all 741.4 million of them are doing better than the US with its 328 million people.
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I guess that explains why so many countries are also having second waves
I think you need to look up the definition of a wave, and then look at the distribution of COVID cases over time in the USA. Hint: the USA is not in a second wave, it just majorly fucked up handling the first wave.
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The man ended up in the hospital with it [covid-19].
You mean that publicity stunt? He never had Covid. That was a "see, not a big deal" thing.
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Trump did everything he could to stop it, remember? The never trumpers were doing everything they could to help it. Including violating his order to not bring back infected people from Diamond Princess. They did it anyway ensuring more got sick. Remember the democrats were calling him xenophobic? "Protesters" were at airports? Remember all that? The democrats were busy trying to impeach him while he was setting up a board to take care of this. They didn't care, he did.
Then we have governors like Cuomo sendi
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And none of those capped needles! (Score:2)
If we want fake vaccines, we'll just use saline solution.
Seriously, I hope Pfizer gouged the hell out of "He whose name need not be spoken" for this batch.
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If he were paying for it I'd agree with you, but it's my tax dollars the moron is spending.
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Yeah, I realized that afterwards. And the attempted joke wasn't funny, either.
Nearly full coverage of adults by end of summer (Score:5, Insightful)
With Pfizer and Moderna combined it looks like 400 million doses by the end of June, or about 200 million adults. That is just about full coverage, and should cover everyone who wants the vaccine. So this appears in line with things starting to get back to normal by late-summer / early-fall as long as people actually get the shots.
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That ignores wastage. In some states, as much as 5% of vaccines get wasted for various reasons. And given the extreme levels of refrigeration required for the Pfizer vaccine, I would expect that number to be considerably higher.
I'm guessing it will be closer to 175M when all is said and done, but that's an absolute guess.
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Where does your 5% number come from? For quite a while now, we'll be in a situation where people are lined up to get the vaccine, so there's very little to think it will go bad in the freezer. Pfizer's vaccine is good for up to 5 days in a normal (2-8 degrees C) refrigerator, and their vials have a little bit extra to boot.
Overall, there seems like little reason to expect much wastage with the first few vaccines.
Re:Nearly full coverage of adults by end of summer (Score:4, Informative)
From the NIH [nih.gov].
Less frequently used vaccines had rates as high as 50%, but that's mostly because of expiration. I'm pretty sure that won't be a factor. But refrigeration failures can and do occur. And no matter how hard they try to plan things, they're likely to end up making mistakes in rural areas, distributing a few too many doses that end up not getting used and can't be sent back before they go bad. That all adds up.
It's possible that I'm being too cynical. Like I said, I'm really just guessing about what the numbers will be. But we have to assume the wastage will be nonzero even if everything is perfectly planned and the only remaining problem is human error.
Financial markets are overflowing with fed money (Score:2)
Trillions and trillions every month, trashing the dollar... Is even 1% of it going into the war effort?
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Which war? The one against taxpayers? That's the only one that I've noticed is still raging.
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Well, I was kinda thinking of the covid thing. We are losing that battle so that trillionaires can be trillionaires.
Meanwhile, millions of doses sit on shelves (Score:4, Informative)
Now we're going to buy 100 million more doses? Are those going to sit around as well? Is this another scam by the con artist to spend taxpayer money to enrich the 1% at the expense of the taxpayers?
At the same time these millions of doses are sitting around doing nothing, the states were told they would be receiving fewer doses [cnn.com] than they were initially told.
On top of all this, only 1 million vaccines have been given [thehill.com] so far. This is far below the 20 million vaccines [reuters.com] the con artist said would be given by the end of the year. 19 million more vaccines given by December 31st? Not gonna happen.
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Now we're going to buy 100 million more doses? Are those going to sit around as well? Is this another scam by the con artist to spend taxpayer money to enrich the 1% at the expense of the taxpayers?
Erm, if you read TFS, the 100 million more doses are going to be delivered around the end of July 2020.
At the same time these millions of doses are sitting around doing nothing, the states were told they would be receiving fewer doses [cnn.com] than they were initially told.
That's not what your source says:
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Erm, if you read TFS, the 100 million more doses are going to be delivered around the end of July 2021.
meant 2021
they were supposed to stockpile it (Score:2)
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They did do that, and they are distributing them now.
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They did but the distribution plan was barely made and flopped in execution. They could have distributed q million vaccines and had people get them the moment the ok came through. That would take competence, something that doesn't exist and is actively derided in the Trump administration.
My opinion (Score:1)