Slowing Vaccine Take-Up Means 170,000 Moderna Doses at Risk of Expiry
The NHS is looking to redistribute thousands of Covid vaccine doses as slowing take-up rates among young Britons, who don’t appear to be moved by petty bribes, could result in doses being thrown away after reaching their expiry dates. The Guardian has the story.
An internal email seen by the Guardian warned of 170,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine at risk of expiry within the next fortnight, as doctors across England have raised alarm at the unpredictability of vaccine take-up among young people meaning more doses will go to waste.
The Government is to unveil a raft of new initiatives to increase vaccine uptake among young people, including discounts on car-hailing companies such as Uber and Bolt, as well as the delivery service Deliveroo.
It is understood the NHS has managed to redistribute 40,000 of the spare Moderna jabs. However, concerns have been raised about the number of jabs wasted as uptake slows among younger people eligible for the Moderna and Pfizer jabs.
The Joint Committee for Vaccination and Immunisation recommends an interval of eight to 12 weeks between doses, initially as a way to offer more people first doses because of limited supply, but studies have since shown that the larger gap could give longer protection.
One NHS doctor in the north-east, Dr Alison George, said colleagues had been forced to routinely discard Pfizer doses, rather than give second shots early to people who requested them. “We have very high rates of infection here and the local hospital is already under significant pressure with some elective surgery cancelled,” the GP said. …
Beccy Baird, a Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund, said it was getting more difficult to predict vaccine uptake.
“Uptake is getting lower as the cohorts get younger and matching the supply of vaccines to demand will get harder as demand becomes less predictable. This is made all the harder as the vaccines have a limited shelf life,” she said. …
“In the early stages of the rollout, you could be confident that wherever vaccines were delivered there would be sufficient demand for them. Now that a majority of adults have been vaccinated, and with uptake getting lower as the cohorts become younger, demand for the vaccine is more unpredictable, making it harder to know exactly where the doses are needed.” …
Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are now mostly distributed to the under-40s, who cannot receive the AstraZeneca vaccine. Those vaccines have a shorter shelf life of up to one month in the fridge, compared with the AstraZeneca vaccine, which can last for up to six months.
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How exactly do you redistribute a dose? Do you sent it to another place in the UK or abroad?
Stick some in the other arm?
I’d suggest they just get stuck where the sun don’t shine on lockdown and vaxx fanatics.
Rectal jabs. What jolly fun.
Redistribute from fridge to a flip top bin in clinical waste room. Best place for it.
Donate them to Dignitas
A sliver of good news then if one hundred thousand death shots get binned.
However we don’t get any money back…
A friendly reminder: Somewhere in the North-East means Manchester and some NHS manager there cancelled some elective surgery dates in anticipation of a future COVID wave he believed the hospital would have to deal with.
Presumably, he was simply under pressure to cancel something.
Manchester is North-West. I think there are problems (supposedly) in the North-East, as in Newcastle, Teeside etc.
The (so far) sole cancellation story still came from there.
I think you’re spot-on with the “so far” qualification. Most of this stuff is either orchestrated from the centre, or else someone in some benighted place wants his or her “day in the sun”; the best method for obtaining that is to whistle up some alarmist talk and get it into the media.
Live in North Yorkshire where people from the North East come for a holiday…there’s hundreds of them and their kids here, and nothing on local news showing a problem. I think they use the North East because Londoners don’t know where it is and it’s far enough away that nobody can find out the truth.
Whom are you describing when you use the term ‘Londoner’?
Could we stop writing “Moderna” – which sounds modern and cool – and please use the original company name “ModeRNA” (which looks a bit more like it’s true, scary GM-crops origin), please?
I prefer IG Farben.
You don’t need a second dose of ZyklonB.
You don’t need a first dose, second dose, or third dose either.
Unfortunately for many its too late and the clock is ticking.
Which is a good thing.
“We have very high rates of infection here and the local hospital is already under significant pressure with some elective surgery canceled,” ‘the GP said. …'”
The problem is, whenever TDS quotes the Bulshit Beeb or idiotic twats at propaganda Guardian I lose the will to live and simply skip through it.
18 months of the apocalyptic level spreading of bullshit = political narrative by these and their ilk. It’s just too painful to read without percussion self-harm.
I feel yet another ‘NUDGE’ hatching here..
Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are now mostly distributed to the under-40s, who cannot receive the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Tell that to all the clinically extremely vulnerable people under 40 who were double-jabbed with AZ, beginning back in Jan/Feb. How are they supposed to feel? Completely reassured, I’ll bet.
Aw, give them all a retrospective free coffee.
Yes, they stopped giving AZ to younger people in Italy too, presumably it’s just less obvious when older people develop issues as they are more likely to have problems in the first place.
Quick, take this drug before it goes off!
Er, no thanks.
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Well, if SARS-CoV-2 has been found in sewage, I suggest that’s where they should go.
Wow, numerous doses wasted and 170,000 doses of the shite nearing expiry. I came over all strange and was gutted at the thought of it for, well, at least a nanosecond.
Fear not, I’m fully recovered now.
The German chief health clown ordered 200 million doses for the next year. It will be fun to watch. But there is an escape plan – by donting all the doses and letting them be disposed of (expired) somewhere in Africa, all the horrendous waste disappears from public view. I’m surprised that the British government cannot handle this process (yet).
Too many vaccines surpassing their use-by date and having to be discarded will result in the government being compelled to spend even more than they budgeted for to replenish the supply. Therefore, as I suspected, follow the money and the financial motive behind this vaccine drive becomes plain. This could be the real reason they are pushing for the whole nation to be vaccinated, rather than purely those who actually need it.
Who benefits from teenagers being jabbed? Not the teenagers themselves. Nor particularly do elderly and vulnerable folk, as they have been double inoculated themselves. It’s pretty obvious who benefits, isn’t it: Follow the money!
Pfiezer and AstraZeneca shareholders are going to have the best Christmas of their lives!
The NHS has long been the marketing arm of ‘big pharma’. Expensive to buy and administer experimental treatment or readily available out-of-patent cheap generic drug? Hmmm…
The reason we are seeing a rise in anti-biotic resistant bacteria is the average person needs 7 days of antibiotics once every 2 years. There’s a lot more money to be made in say a heart drug or Alzheimer;s drug that you have to take daily for the rest of life.
Then along comes something that needs a drug everyone has to take; ker-ching!!! Sure, Pfizer, AZ and ModeRNA are selling these at cost; but ONLY now, during the emergency. Rest assured, the subsequent bi-annual boosters will be sold at whatever number (with a couple of added zeroes) they like; because now Boris and Matt and SAGE have created this s!”£-storm, no future Health Secretary will dare to not fund the winter and spring covid booster programmes on cost grounds. It’ll be “boosters at any price!”
Pfizer’s CEO has already discussed raising the price from $20 to $150.
Why not get it from Albania apparently its only $12 a shot over there. lol
I agree with all the above, and the boosters will be paid for at your and my expense, “Mr Taxpayer”!
But hey, in Germany Biontech created 500 new workplaces (most in the marketing department I guess). It’s a great success, the government is creating future-proof jobs!
That’s ridiculous, take this, its going off. Not a good enough reason
As someone who has visited Australia quite a few times in the past I’ve decided that I never want to visit Australia ever again – I make it a rule never to visit country’s with totalitarian governments.
Not a lot of options then! Indeed, I find the prospect of staying in the UK pretty despair-making – but I doubt that Texas would take me!
Then the government shouldn’t have ordered so much in the first place.
They won’t be wasted. I know plenty of people who’d willingly have a booster and collect another lapel sticker. They’re hooked.
Yellow Card Reporting Data as of 22nd July 2021:
Shocking that more people aren’t complaining. All that pain, heartache and suffering for individuals and their families – what for?
An alternative description could be: “Excessive orders resulted in financial loss”. Bound to happen when they can’t sell it within it’s shelf life. No doubt we have to pay for it even if it’s junk.
They probably prefer to have a surplus rather than the other way round.
Perhaps the take up numbers has not been going as well as they would like us to believe.
It would suggest that there are quite a lot more goats than sheep in the flock.
The only other issue that is similar is the likelihood that they over ordered the last batch of ‘flu ones last Winter, as they tried to encourage a wider age range to use them. Not clear whether it was ‘successful’ (financially) or not, but ‘flu ones change every year, so it’s possible that they lost a pot of cash over that as well. After all, ‘flu went away for whatever reason last winter, according to ONS death certs etc.
Quick, launch a trial of pregnant women…oh, wait…
170,000? Sell those shares, quickly.