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BY THE END of today, it is expected that in total, 800,000 vaccines will have been administered in the country.
Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said Wednesday and Thursday last week were the HSE’s biggest days in terms of vaccines being administered.
On average over one million vaccines a month will arrive in April, May and June and will be administered quickly, said the health minister today.
A total of 27,427 doses were administered on Thursday, 25 March, bringing the total number administered past 750,000.
By the end of today we expect to have about 800,000 vaccines administered. On Wednesday and Thursday last week we had our biggest days in terms of vaccines administered. On average 1m+ vaccines a month will arrive in April,May and June and will be administered quickly. https://t.co/PC8U4TOYBw
— Stephen Donnelly (@DonnellyStephen) March 28, 2021
This is an increase of more than 5,000 on Wednesday’s total of 21,971, which itself was a new record.
The day-on-day increases suggest there is currently enough capacity to keep pace with increased deliveries.
11.5% of Ireland’s population has received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, while 4.4% are fully vaccinated.
This is above the EU average of 10.6%, but behind countries with more advanced rollouts like the United States (27.4%) United Kingdom (43.8%), and Israel (60.3%).
Meanwhile, there has been an uptick in the number of people in hospital with Covid-19.
There are 322 confirmed cases in hospital, with 18 new admissions in the past 24 hours.
The number of people in ICUs with Covid-19 has remained static, at 66 people.
Two more deaths of people with the virus were confirmed last night, and 624 new cases notified to health authorities.
The HSE’s five walk-in testing centres for people with no symptoms continue to operate. A total of 5,791 people attended the facilities on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with a positivity rate as of Saturday morning of 2.2%.
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Good news and hopefully some consistent progress being made
@WiseUp: look at the previous week on the graph? With the exception of last Thursday and Friday the efforts are pathetic. No consistency there! Forecasting a supply of 250k a week will require over 35k doses per day..every day!!
@Derdaly: agreed pathetic numbers still
@Derdaly: I can see you’re a glass half empty kinda guy! Onwards and upwards and progress being made is how I interpret the graph. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday
@Derdaly: They are starting to ramp up well, last weeks low figures were due to the hold on AZ.
@WiseUp: amazing what a scandal can do
@Nigel o’Neill: some people never happy it is ramping up so take a posative from that & be Thankful we are going in the right direction a lot better than most of Europe
@Alan Byrne: AZ hold up lifted on the 19th!!!
@Derdaly: you do realise its a supply issue not a deployment issue?
@James Gorman: it actually isn’t since 18 March, read the article, do the maths. Over 200k doses on hand last week…
@James Gorman: sorry number is on other article. 855k doses delivered to 18th March.
@Derdaly: Is that because AZ was suspended?
@Derdaly: moan moan moan
@Ken Byrne: He has to paint a negative picture of everything that’s happening. It’s his thing. Got to give him credit for consistency though, the guy’s relentless.
@Nigel o’Neill: Thus time last year, we thought it would take 2yrs to develop a vaccine. We aren’t where we want to be but we’re getting there slowly (We all just desperately need to leave our counties again!!)
@Derdaly: They have used what they have gotten and they say ad we shall see is the system set up correctly.
What more can they do.
I love a good news story ! Also I found a fiver in an old pair of jeans and now I’m off too the shop anyone want any thing ?
@CAMILA REMONA: bag of Meanies please.
@Conor Egan: no bother !!
@CAMILA REMONA: 2 stingers&a dip dab.thanks man.
@CAMILA REMONA: haha….can’t get any better for today I’d say. I’ll take ten penny jellies if you have any change left!
@CAMILA REMONA: wouldn’t get us a dan bar would ye?
@CAMILA REMONA: 400 penny colas, wham bar, black jacks, fruit salads , 1 packet burger bytes
@CAMILA REMONA: I’ll take a cadet cola, a whoppa bar and a bag of banshee bones
@CAMILA REMONA: get us a smiley bar, sound.
@CAMILA REMONA: ye ticket to a sun destination
@CAMILA REMONA: hot lips or thai rings please
@CAMILA REMONA: Camila luv, would you stand me a freddo bar? Thanks angel x
@CAMILA REMONA: I’ll have a dip dab
@CAMILA REMONA: #sozbabes ..got stopped on the way back from the shops at a check piont outside my 5k none of the above requests where deemed essential and now I’m down €105…. ;) Classic my luck !!! Even offered the guard a dip dab… #2fizzy4guards
We managed to get 1million flu vaccines done in October and November by empowering and supplying GP’s to get the needles in arms! This system is way too slow
@Football Value Trader: yes but they had the one million vaccines to administer, can’t give people vaccines that we don’t have
@LFCMAD_94: Ireland has 1.6 million doses of vaccine in total. Another 4.6 million are on order and the UK may share another 3.7 million. Your point is moot
@Football Value Trader: The stability of the flu vaccine and how it can be distributed to GP practices and pharmacies is totally different to the Covid vaccines, and was far more of it too. As time goes on expect that Covid vaccines may well become the same in that they can be manufactured and distributed much easier and possibly in syringes ready to go.
@Football Value Trader: their point is not really mute if the numbers you refer to predominantly refer to vacinnes not yet physically here
@Hank Schrader: Astra can be stored in a normal fridge just like flu shots. You’re referring to Moderna and Pfizer
@D. Memery: Reread my comment. There’s 1.6 million COVID vaccines in Ireland as we speak. They are being kept to administer to the different cohorts in Irelands vaccination roll-out. These vaccines need to be supplied immediately to GP’s who are better placed to get the job done
@Football Value Trader: I don’t think that’s true bud? Think we’re hoping to receive 1.1 million by the end of March. Figure of 1.6 million is from December before any supply issues
@AL: Here’s the figures for you:
2.3 million doses of Pfizer received 29th December
880,000 Moderna received 16th of January
3.3 million Astra received 8th of February
Now if someone would be kind enough to do the maths I won’t have to spend all my Sunday answering replies
@Football Value Trader: Fantasy Football figures.
@Football Value Trader: there is a difference between orders and deliveries, ireland has received around 750,000 doses up to last week, some are held back for the 2nd dose, there is no surplus sitting somewhere.
A quick google search will show you the figures!
@Football Value Trader: See the 3rd paragraph of this article from Friday. 855,360 doses delivered by 18th March. https://jrnl.ie/5388094
@Football Value Trader: I wish they were true but you’ve whipped them out from your back side
@AL: if they are getting the vacinnes from Football Value Trader’s back side, I may request another vacinne, as I’m not sure of the efficacy of anything coming from there.
@AL: OK Al, maybe add up all the vaccine deliveries made so far, including the deliveries Thursday, Friday and Saturday, which are in a refrigerated warehouse in Citywest by the way, then subtract the first and second dose figures and see what number you get. 100-120 thousand will be vaccinated every week according to the government and about 600 thousand are due their second dose in the next four to six weeks. So if I’m wrong why have the government made the claim they can do those sorts of numbers?
@Football Value Trader: Your ‘delivered’ figures are just what we’ve ordered. Those targets are reached very slowly over a few months with various deliveries throughout Q1 and Q2.
@Football Value Trader: 340k or so have had 1st dose and not second dose, of those almost 160k are AZ which has a 12 week dosing interval so most not due in next 4-6 weeks so actually 180k plus however many pfizer/moderna first doses are given in the next 2 weeks are due 2nd doses in the next 4-6 weeks… https://twitter.com/COVID19DataIE/status/1376114850322059269?s=19
EU data here says we have received just over 800k doses up to the 21st, not sure how many were delivered this week but with holding doses back to ensure supply for 2nd doses seems a pretty high percentage of doses have been given (We’d given 680k doses by last Sunday, when about 310k were between 1st and second dose). https://covid19-vaccine-report.ecdc.europa.eu/
@Football Value Trader: we can’t get the Vaccines out of the kitchen tap, we have to wait to receive them, or do you know something that the rest of us dont
@Football Value Trader: ‘On order’ doesn’t mean here. The UK has not offered us anything yet. Every vaccine we have is in an arm by now.
750k vaccinated 250k already have had covid and hence a level of immunity that is 1m or 20% of the population and the daily numbers in many parts of the country consistently below 20 per day why are we still in level 5, well paid civil servants I suppose who don’t have to worry about bills food clothes . 500,000 forced out of work some for more than a year. When will we have positive leadership rather than scaremongering and fear.
@john s: apparently from what I heard in radio last week we need 3m vaccinated for herd immunity to be effective
It’s when the risk of dying and hospitalisation from covid are above a certain % that lockdown is required. Sadly the Govt will not have a conversation with the people about these figures.
@: the threshold for herd immunity from a virus like COVID is between 34 and 68%. This is from viral modelling. The 75% figure is what people have decided sounds about right.
But why do you need heard immunity or 60-70% vaccinated for a disease that unfortunately effects over 70s and those with underlying health conditions ?
@Gerard Carthy: wow between 34 and 68% that is a ludicrous spread i am not disputing it but that in Ireland is a spread from 1.6m too 3.2m people in Ireland.
@john s:Your numbers are wrong all over the place.
And listen…..St Gerald’s staff and families can’t thank the government enough
@Ciaran McCann: The amount of rubbish on journal.ie today is a record in itself.
@Ciaran McCann: Interesting article in the Guardian regarding the extra dose dilemma experience in the UK. Seemingly a 10 shot vial of AZ can yield up to 13 doses. Vaccine administers have to get creative, against the rules. But so is throwing out vaccine!!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/28/key-uk-workers-given-secret-covid-jabs-to-avoid-wasting-vaccine
@Derdaly: You can get 8 doses out of the 6 dose Pfizer vial too, it was well known you could get 7 at a pinch from the beginning but then some clever nurses realised that you can stretch to 8 if you use those tiny insulin needles so as not to waste a drop (and that was the first week of January they were talking about that so its nothing new) – so they defo are doing that! Never fear.
The HSE made a balls of procuring the vaccine. One simple job and they couldn’t do it. Instead that mouthpiece Paul Reid comes in the radio with excuses. He’s not worth 42k never mind 420k.
@Random_paddy: Can’t procure what isn’t there. EU made a balls of that not the HSE, who have nothing to do with procuring vaccines anyway.
@Random_paddy: You sound like an ill-informed bar room mouthpiece.
Record based on what?
@Fergal Owens: I would say based on the very low numbers administered thus far.
@Keith Twamley: agreed but why just higher doses rather than record
@Fergal Owens: back to school for you.. Billy Maddison
@Charmaine ☘ Irish: sorry meant to say: why dont they say higher than record doses
@Keith Twamley: The numbers percentage wise are some of the highest in the EU.
750000
So what records my ass
4.5 million in Ireland
By the time we need our second vaccine we be behind on first year
@Paul Kiely: only if this is a linear increase, the projected deliveries, and I accept they are just projected at present, would indicate an exponential increase over the next few weeks is more likely.
Not good enough at all. Shocking service!
@Corinne Wilson Muller: You have our permission to go out and do better.
We should praise them for doing the job their paid to do in the first place, I suppose they had to get it right EVENTUALLY
I ran a mile in four hours yesterday and today it only took me 3 hours and 55 minutes. By the governments standard I should actually be telling everyone I set my personal best today and not bother with the times because they are abysmal. Easy to set records when you’re coming from such a pitiful starting point
@Craig Loughman: aren’t you a great man all together.
@Craig Loughman: What do you want them to pretend they vaccinated loads of people they did not to make the you happy, they have used what they had, now they must keep a reserve for the second shot. That is the way it works.
I’m aware of someone who got the AZ vaccine last week, is now in hospital with a blood clot. They have no history of clotting. Hospital staff very unwilling to consider that it could be vaccine related. I have no problem with vaccination but it seems like a very dangerous situation where medical staff are not willing to report side effects. Do we want the vaccine so badly that we’re prepared to overlook safety issues?
@Ainm: great story, bro
@Ainm:
There are similar issues with Pfizer and Moderna identified in USA but not reported in the EU.
@Pseud O’Nym:
Same issues with Pfizer and Modena but not in the news here.
Any chance of a tabular report, across groups, similar to what is floating around the Internet?
What do they want? A chocolate watch.
Record number by their own measure
@William Bryan: If you measure them against the rest of the EU they are doing very well and our logistics are harder again.
Great. Things can only get better.
Lots of people i know couldn’t get the flu jab this year despite getting it previous years
@Joed: The flu did not happen this year due to people taking covid-19 precaustions, same the world over.
That’s great and hopefully we will set a lot more good news facts like this
Have the know shame pimping up a derisory increase in inoculations as if it was groundbreaking nearly as bad as the time after bust when a Gov minster came on national Tv to announce 8 new jobs .
So it’s beating it’s own poor performance?
It’s OK the Beacon can give you as much as ye need feck everone else
Any idea what the number of positive cases were from the walk in tests this week?
@Emer Caffrey: Heard it was as low as 2% positive for the walk in tests so far, so that’s good news.
Jeez these ‘records’ ain’t hard to achieve.
Omg stop giving yourselves pats on the back and just get those vaccines ASAP!
@Michelle Flood: What do you think they are doing holding them back for fun. The EU numbers show we are doing very well.
You can only use what you have and now you have to keep a second shot supply too.
So it means we have to have more vaccines in hand.
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