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The Netherlands buys 12 million omikron boosters still to be developed
NOS News Netherlands ^ | 12/29/2021 | Mitchell van de Klundert

Posted on 12/29/2021 5:37:36 PM PST by Nextrush

The Netherlands has ordered 12 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine that may be the first to be adapted to the omikron variant. That is what the Ministry of Health says after questions from the NOS. The vaccines will be delivered in the second quarter of 2022 and will be enough to give 85 percent of all over 18s a new booster shot.

Outgoing minister De Jonge said in a corona debate in the House of Representatives yesterday that a new vaccination campaign with the modified vaccine will be launched in the foreseeable future. "We expect to have that at the beginning of the second quarter," he said. "And I also expect that we have to put it then."

Delivery

It is not yet entirely certain whether an adapted vaccine will actually be produced. Development is still underway, although Pfizer previously said it expected to be able to start delivering from March 2022. Other pharmaceutical companies, including Moderna, are also working on updates to their corona vaccines, and the Netherlands also purchases these shots...

(Excerpt) Read more at nos.nl ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; covid; vaccination; vaccine
The Dutch have been getting third jabs with a vengeance in recent weeks, now the plans for jab four next year.
1 posted on 12/29/2021 5:37:36 PM PST by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush

I looked at the original story and I couldn’t understand any of it.

It’s like it was written in a foreign language or something.


2 posted on 12/29/2021 5:40:33 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: blueunicorn6

True but there is a translation prompt for users of the latest Microsoft Windows and Google Chrome to make it all come out English.


3 posted on 12/29/2021 5:42:09 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

By the time they get them Omicron will have spread around the world and be over.


4 posted on 12/29/2021 5:43:05 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Yes indeed


5 posted on 12/29/2021 5:43:29 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Nextrush

“Spuiten met het vaccine”

OK…..let’s translate that.

“Spitting meth head vaccine”

I guess meth heads have the good stuff.


6 posted on 12/29/2021 5:47:33 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Nextrush

OK, they buy 12 million for Omicron, what happens when the next ( as of now unknown ) variant emerges? Do they hope this boosters will work?


7 posted on 12/29/2021 6:06:05 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: Nextrush

Stupid Governments are Stupid


8 posted on 12/29/2021 6:08:54 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Nextrush

Fools.


9 posted on 12/29/2021 6:50:32 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Nextrush

They always were big on killing people off.


10 posted on 12/29/2021 7:26:00 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: blueunicorn6

It’s like buying pork=belly futures. You know there will be a market for them.


11 posted on 12/29/2021 7:38:01 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why he would)
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To: Nextrush

So the Dutch ante’d up for a vaccine which does not exist for a variant which poses no threat and which may not exist by the time said “vaccine” is ready?

Can we sell them a bridge and some south Florida waterfront property, too?


12 posted on 12/29/2021 8:31:54 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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