Posted on 01/28/2021 6:33:54 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
With demand for COVID-19 vaccines outpacing the world’s supplies, a frustrated public and policymakers want to know: How can we get more? A lot more. Right away.
The problem: “It’s not like adding more water to the soup,” said vaccine specialist Maria Elena Bottazzi of Baylor College of Medicine.
Makers of COVID-19 vaccines need everything to go right as they scale up production to hundreds of millions of doses — and any little hiccup could cause a delay. Some of their ingredients have never before been produced at the sheer volume needed.
HOW MUCH IS ON THE WAY?
That varies by country. Moderna and Pfizer each are on track to deliver 100 million doses to the U.S. by the end of March and another 100 million in the second quarter of the year. Looking even further ahead, President Joe Biden has announced plans to buy still more over the summer, reaching enough to eventually vaccinate 300 million Americans.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told a Bloomberg conference this week that his company will actually wind up providing 120 million doses by the end of March — not by speedier production but because health workers now are allowed to squeeze an extra dose out of every vial.
But getting six doses instead of five requires using specialized syringes, and there are questions about the global supply. A Health and Human Services spokesman said the U.S. is sending kits that include the special syringes with each Pfizer shipment.
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It’s amazing how the tone of news articles regarding “President Joe Biden” have switched to being apologetic as opposed to being over-the-top hostile.
Oh, now it’s hard to do? When Trump was in office, you demanded it, now.
I can’t properly express my hatred of the media.
Remember when the Obama administration took over GM. There was a story going around that some government overlord was in a meeting and told some engineers that they needed to make a certain change.
An engineer looked up and said “We can’t make the change.”
“Why not” replied the bureaucrat?
“It’s against the law.”
“I’m the government, I’ll change the law” said the government drone.
“Good luck with that, it’s the Second Law of Thermodynamics stupid.”
That’s where America is with the Moron Joe Clown Show in charge
You don’t get the feeling that they will be able to produce enough for ‘civilization’ in 2021, or even 2022. Just an odd prospective. Some folks might be on their third bout of Covid before enough ‘juice’ arrives.
Real world constraints never applied to Trump, simply because it was Trump's fault. Nothing will ever be Biden's fault.
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