Cable Forum - View Single Post

jfman · 18-03-2021, 16:15

But what is the benefit in continuing to issue it for the EU?

AZ in the EU are miles behind in terms of deliveries and the bloc are months away from being in a position to meaningfully ease restrictions.

Right now the biggest (only?) real weapon in their arsenal is lockdown and other non-pharmaceutical interventions. A delay in issuing the AZ vaccine of a week to two weeks is neither here nor their for the vaccination programme as a whole.

The UK regulator isn't in the same boat, it's weighing up the ongoing availability of a large number of doses with inadequate contracts to meaningfully continue the vaccination programme as a whole. We'd be doing about 25% of the vaccinations throughout April if we were relying on Pfizer only. That puts the UK back months, hence the "it's safer to use it than not" is closer to black vs white.

18-03-2021, 16:15	#4164
jfman Architect of Ideas Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 10,366	Re: Coronavirus But what is the benefit in continuing to issue it for the EU? AZ in the EU are miles behind in terms of deliveries and the bloc are months away from being in a position to meaningfully ease restrictions. Right now the biggest (only?) real weapon in their arsenal is lockdown and other non-pharmaceutical interventions. A delay in issuing the AZ vaccine of a week to two weeks is neither here nor their for the vaccination programme as a whole. The UK regulator isn't in the same boat, it's weighing up the ongoing availability of a large number of doses with inadequate contracts to meaningfully continue the vaccination programme as a whole. We'd be doing about 25% of the vaccinations throughout April if we were relying on Pfizer only. That puts the UK back months, hence the "it's safer to use it than not" is closer to black vs white.