Tag Archives: Vaccine

 

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly

This morning.

Via RTÉ news:

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said the issue with the Covid-19 AstraZeneca vaccine is very frustrating and he said he spoke to the company about his concerns with supply last night.

Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, he said the AstraZeneca representative said the company was committed to the total volumes being delivered to Ireland but could not give dates.

Mr Donnelly said the company admitted to having “unanticipated problems” with supply chains and having a very significant manufacturing capacity…

Minister says AstraZeneca commits to fixing issues but no dates for deliveries (RTÉ)

Meanwhile…

Um.

Oh.

RollingNews

March 8, 2021.

Meanwhile…

Yesterday.

CNN’s New Day.

Host John Berman: “…What’s the science behind not saying it’s safe for people who have been vaccinated – received two doses, to travel?”

Dr Tony Fauci: “You know that’s a very good question, John, and the CDC [The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] is carefully heading in that direction. You know when [CDC director] Dr Walensky made the announcement a day or two ago about the fact that when you have a couple of people,  two or more people in a family setting, both of whom are vaccinated. Even if it’s someone from another…a friend, it doesn’t have to be a member of the family. That was the first in a multi-step process that they are going to be rolling out.

“They are being careful, understandably, they want to get the science, they want to get data and then when you don’t have the data and you don’t have the actual evidence, then you’ve got to make a judgment call. And I think that’s what you’re going to be seeing in the next weeks. You’re going to see little by little, more and more guidelines getting people to be more and more flexible.

“The first installation of this is what can vaccinated people do in the home setting? Obviously, the next one is going to be what you’re asking. What about travel? What about going out? … That’s all imminently going to be coming out”

Anyone?

When You’ve Been Fully Vaccinated (CDC)

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Oh.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin arriving for Leaders Questions in the Dail at the Convention Centre in Dublin this morning

This morning/afternoon.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said Ireland is in line for an extra 46,500 vaccines before the end of March after the European Union announced 4 million additional doses of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine.

Ireland to get 46,500 extra vaccine doses this month (RTÉ)

RollingNews

This morning.

Via Independent.ie:

The vaccination was rolled out after 300 doses of the Moderna jab arrived without notice. Dr Paddy Malone, the village’s retired GP, assisted with the distribution of the vaccine on Saturday.

There were 137 persons vaccinated on Saturday and they were supervised by a retired anaesthetist and two nurses in Murphy’s Bar in the Kerry village after the jabs were delivered.

The bar premises – closed because of Covid restrictions – was opened to facilitate the vaccinations, but no drink was served.

Hic.

All over-70s in Kerry village receive vaccine after surprise delivery (RTÉ)

Pic: TripAdvisor

Top from left: Paul Reid, CEO, HSE; Anne O’Connor, Chief Operations Officer, HSE; Dr Colm Henry, Chief Clinical Officer, HSE; Dr Abigail Collins, Consultant in Public Health Medicine and Public Health Schools’ Lead, HSE at Dr Steevens’ Hospital this aftrnoon

This afternoon.

Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin

Weekly HSE operational update on the response to Covid-19.

HSE CEO Paul Reid said that two AstraZeneca deliveries – 64,000 last week and 12,000 this week – have been impacted by delays.

He said the HSE did get some deliveries but they did not meet that volume.

“After next week it should start to balance itself out,” Mr Reid said.

He added that over the course of three weeks, there’s a delivery of about 115,000 doses and they may be 2,000-3,000 short of that commitment.

He said it had a delivery of 36,000 on 2 March, is due 57,600 on 9 March, and 21,600 on 12 March.

Meanwhile…

Speaking in the Dáil, Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly said he has asked the High-Level Taskforce on Covid-19 Vaccination to examine the possibility of seeking extra vaccine supplies outside of the EU arrangement.

He said this would be done in parallel with the EU process, if it happens at all.

Meanwhile….

The Department of Health has said that Ireland is currently above the EU average, with around 3% of the population fully vaccinated, and 6% of the population having received at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose. The department has said that 8.8 doses per 100 people have been administered so far.

‘Significant issues’ with vaccination delivery this week – HSE (RTÉ)

RollingNews

This afternoon.

Good times.

EU to propose law on COVID-19 certificates in March (EuroNews)

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A photograph of Tony Blair being vaccinated, used to illustrate Peter Hitchens’ article about himself being vaccinated. As opposed to a picture of Peter Hitchens being vaccinated. Which would have looked very similar. 

Yesterday.

Covid sceptic and lockdown critic Peter Hitchens takes the jab…

Oh.

Meanwhile..

This morning.

Anyone?

I’ve had the Covid jab – and all it cost me was my freedom (Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday)

From top: today’s Irish Daily Mail; HSE CEO Paul Reid and Anne O’Connor, Chief Operations Officer, HSE at Dr Steevens’ Hospital for the weekly HSE operational update this afternoon

This afternoon.

HSE briefing at Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin.

HSE CEO Paul Reid addressed an Irish Daily Mail report this morning from a whistleblower who claims thousands of people who had been vaccinated have had their personal data compromised.

The whistleblower said IT system being used by the HSE was compromised and patients’ confidential data was accessible.

Via RTÉ

In relation to a Irish Daily Mail report, Paul Reid said they have ongoing discussions with the data protection commissioner.

He said the first stage is the Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) which would have been a similar process they worked through in relation to testing and tracing – what levels of access for data, what levels of controls.

He said it was similar in terms of deployment of the IT system for the vaccine rollout. As part of that, he said there are different phases of control processes, and processes for deployment of that system.

“It’s a national system because there are people going into various locations – hospital groups, community organisations, vaccination centres – they’re not from a particular hospital or community organisation. So we always envisaged the processes were always defined that it would be a national view in the first instance.”

He said that when they move to vaccination centres, it’s expected the control view will be who is to be administered in that centre. Right now it is on a national basis, he said, and control processes are around as people are administered onto the system .

He said he is not aware of the case reported in the Daily Mail.

Hmm.

Anyone?

Latest Covid-19 briefing from the HSE (RTÉ)

Thousands have highly personal details exposed in COVID-19 vaccine data breach (Extra.ie)

RollingNews

This morning.

Department of Health, Dublin 2.

Professor Karina Butler, Chair of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee, joined Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly to brief media on the COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Strategy. To wit:

The new rollout strategy means the order in which people will receive the vaccine has changed.

People aged 65 and older who live in long-term care facilities and frontline healthcare workers have already been vaccinated under the first two stages of the strategy announced on 8 December last year.

Under stage three, Ireland is currently vaccinating people aged 70 and older, starting with those aged 85 and older.

The new fourth stage of the roll-out, which comes into effect after all those over the age of 70 are vaccinated, will see vaccines going to people aged 16 and 69 who are considered at very high risk of developing severe Covid-19.

People with certain conditions moved up on vaccine rollout strategy (RTÉ)

Earlier…

After you.

No, after you.

I insist.

Etc.

RollingNews

Yesterday.

The trophy ceremony for the Australian Open men’s final was met with by booing after Tennis Australia president Jayne Hrdlicka (top) mentioned the coronavirus vaccine rollout in a speech.

Via Sky:

Jayne Hrdlicka thanked the Victorian government for ensuring the competition continued despite a COVID-19 outbreak and snap lockdown and touted the Pfizer rollout.

Her comment triggered booing from the crowd, behaviour which was condemned by Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack who described it as “disgusting” and “un-Australian”.

FIGHT!