Tag Archives: Vaccine

HSE CEO Paul Reid

This morning.

HSE CEO Paul Reid said the total vaccination programme this week will be between 310,000 and 330,000 and of that 90,000 shots will be AstraZeneca.

Via RTÉ

Following on from that, he said, around 100,000 AstraZeneca vaccines should be administered.

He said the HSE gets confirmation of delivery around two weeks ahead of each vaccine supply line, adding there are very strong supply lines for the next two weeks, and after that the HSE will deal primarily with Pfizer and Moderna.

Reid says AstraZeneca supply lines are ‘firmed up’ (RTÉ)

Meanwhile…

AstraZeneca´s Covid vaccine, which was developed with the University of Oxford, faces fresh safety doubts.

The AstraZeneca jab has been suspended in several European countries over reports of rare blood clots.

A top official in the European Medicines Agency was on Sunday reported as having suggested that it might be worth abandoning AstraZeneca´s vaccine if alternatives were available.

But the EMA said the body’s head of vaccine strategy, Marco Cavaleri, had been misrepresented, and that he believed its benefits outweigh its risks.

“The decision on its use in different populations and ages is the prerogative of the EU Member States, based on specific factors such as virus circulation and vaccine availability,” a spokeswoman said.

AstraZeneca hits setback in trials of COVID-19 drug (The News)

RollingNews

This afternoon.

Twibbons.

They’re not for us all.

Meanwhile…

Via News 12:

A 12-year-old from Mount Pleasant is among the students who have been selected so far in drawings for a full-ride, four-year scholarship from New York state’s ‘Get a Shot to Make Your Future‘ vaccine incentive.

Gulp.

This morning.

Via Independent.ie:

Older and vulnerable people will be first in line for top-up jabs while a programme for vaccinating secondary school pupils is also being considered.

The National Immunisation Advisory Committee will discuss whether booster shots should match the vaccine a person originally received or if they can be mixed.

The plans under consideration at the highest levels of Government are aimed at ensuring people continue to be protected in the winter months when the country is most vulnerable to a virus outbreak.

Booster vaccines to be offered in winter to head off risk of Covid-19 variant surge (Independent.ie)

RollingNews

“Republican house members had invited Sherri Tenpenny to testify in support of a bill that would weaken our state’s vaccination laws. She is a licensed doctor who is carving out quite the career for herself defying science and spreading lies about Covid-19 vaccines.

“I’m sure you’ve seen the pictures all over the internet of people who have had these shots and now they’re magnetized,” she said, out loud. “You can put a key on their forehead, it sticks. You can put spoons and forks all over and they can stick because now we think there is a metal piece to that.”

Hours later, there’s CNN’s Jake Tapper, smacking that pen to his brow.

“Nope,” he said as the pen tumbled onto his desk. “Not magnetic.”

Magnets, vaccines and the toll the conspiracy of misinformation takes on our ability to protect ourselves (Connie Schulz, USA Today)

Alternatively….

Gulp.

Dr T offers an alternative, less light-hearted hypothesis.

Yesterday: El Trabajo Del Diablo

Late Late Show host Ryan Tubridy

Via RTÉ:

The Late Late Show is looking forward to welcoming our studio audience back when it is safe to do so. We are hoping that will happen during our upcoming season, which begins in September.

At present for the Health and Safety of RTÉ staff and crew working on our live programmes, we are only accepting applications from people who will be fully vaccinated at the time of broadcast.

Proof of vaccination will be required for admission to TV Studios.

Stay home or is the little prick worth it?

Only you can decide.

*rubs arm*

Be in The Late Late Show Studio Audience! (RTÉ)

The Late Late Show audience is returning – but only for vaccinated people (Joe.ie)

It’s time.

This afternoon.

Meanwhile…

Earlier: The Second Dose

Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), General Secretary Phil Ní Sheaghdha (above) has called for an urgent meeting with the HSE to discuss potential risks of the AstraZeneca vaccine

This morning.

Further to the publication yesterday of letter from the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) to Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan highlighting new concerns that the risk of blood clots previously linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine is ‘higher after a second dose of the vaccine than previously understood’.

About 150,000 healthcare workers have yet to receive the second dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. largely AstraZeneca.

Via RTÉ:

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has called for an urgent meeting with the HSE to discuss the implications for second dose vaccinations of healthcare workers.

….INMO General Secretary Phil Ní Sheaghdha said her members have always supported the precautionary principal and if there are issues about receiving a second dose of Astra Zeneca that need to be clarified then they want that done.

Ms Ní Sheaghdha said many of her members are due to start receiving second doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine next week.

INMO seeking meeting with HSE over AstraZeneca vaccine (RTÉ)

RollingNews

Meanwhile…

AstraZeneca vaccine side effects: Reports of ‘life-threatening’ capillary leak syndrome (MSN)