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British Rollout of the Moderna Covid Vaccine Begins as AstraZeneca Supply Dries Up

by Michael Curzon
7 April 2021 1:26 PM

Britain’s rollout of the Moderna vaccine began today amid disruptions in its supply of the AstraZeneca jab which faces continuing scrutiny regarding its connection to rare blood clots. Reuters has the story.

Britain began using Moderna’s Covid vaccine on Wednesday in Wales just as its rollout of other shots fell to their lowest level this year due to a supply crunch caused by manufacturing problems at AstraZeneca.

Britain has surged ahead of the rest of Europe in the race to vaccinate its population, with almost half of its citizens receiving a first dose. But supply issues from its main AstraZeneca shot have slowed progress in recent days.

Britain distributed almost 96,000 shots on Sunday and just over 105,000 on Monday, the lowest figures since the Government started publishing daily numbers in January.

It had warned that the rollout would slow in April due to AstraZeneca’s manufacturing issues, including at a site in India.

A spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that he would not go into details about supply and delivery timelines but said the country remained on track to provide a first dose to all adults by the end of July.

That rollout will now be bolstered by the addition of the Moderna shot. Already used in the United States and other parts of Europe, it becomes the third vaccine to be used in Britain after AstraZeneca and one from Pfizer.

The Prime Minister has welcomed the arrival of the Moderna vaccine, saying that 17 million doses of the jab have been ordered.

The Moderna vaccine rollout begins today, starting with Carmarthen in Wales. We have ordered 17 million doses that will be going into arms across the UK in the coming weeks.

Please get your jab as soon as you are contacted.https://t.co/i9fAMASKD3

— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) April 7, 2021

The disruption to the supply of the AstraZeneca vaccine comes as the jab is under scrutiny regarding its link to rare blood clots. Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) are due to give an update on this issue shortly.

The Reuters report is worth reading in full.

Tags: ModernaVaccine

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PoshPanic
PoshPanic
4 years ago

Reuters has the spin. It’s more likely that nobody will touch the AZ vaccine with a barge pole. Probably a mountain of the stuff on it’s way to landfill.

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NonCompliant
NonCompliant
4 years ago
Reply to  PoshPanic

A big thank you goes out to the thousands of eager AZ guinea pigs. Please now form an orderly queue so we can start large scale human trials on Moderna’s behalf.

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epythymy
epythymy
4 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

It defies belief that people who were told this vaccine was absolutely safe have now found out that it might not be safe and yet those same people still believe the others will be safe. Make it make sense!

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Kymtr17
Kymtr17
4 years ago

Moderna were saying on their website that this jab was a “delivery vehicle” for “future developments” until fairly recently. They have removed this wording now.

It’s a mRNA gene editing “therapy”, not a vaccine as “vaccine” is commonly understood.

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iane
iane
4 years ago
Reply to  Kymtr17

Yep – the name is a bit of a potential giveaway Moderna.

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TheFascistCoronaFraud
TheFascistCoronaFraud
4 years ago

Well as long as it uses a process of genetic modification to turn perfectly healthy cells in my body into a spike making factory, so they all look like the spiky corona balls they show on the TV, what’s not to like?

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MizakeTheMizan
MizakeTheMizan
4 years ago

What a coincidence that the Moderna vaccine arrives just as the AZ vaccine becomes problamatic.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
4 years ago

Blood Clots Media Games / Lockdown News Roundup / Hugo Talks #lockdown
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https://brandnewtube.com/watch/blood-clots-media-games-lockdown-news-roundup-hugo-talks-lockdown_EZvNOqakUhoMlkL.html

Anti Lockdown Newspaper: https://thelightpaper.co.uk/
Stand in South Hill Park Bracknell every Sunday 10am meet fellow lockdown sceptics

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
4 years ago

Restaurateurs and police scuffle at restrictions protest in Italy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlJuV99fjt8&list=WL&index=58

Anti Lockdown Newspaper: https://thelightpaper.co.uk/
Stand in South Hill Park Bracknell every Sunday 10am meet fellow lockdown sceptics

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Spikedee1
Spikedee1
4 years ago

Yet another item just talking about “rare” blood clots. Do some research LS what about the other 500 people that sadlidied from “not rare blood clots?”. What about the hundreds of thousands that have had “serious side effects?” So this data is straight from the yellow card reporting site. Anyone from LS visited this site? No? Not important enough. How many of the hundreds of old folk died after the jab and just put down as sadlidied of covid and never reported?

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sskinner
sskinner
4 years ago

Both Boeing and Airbus lauded their modern management and ‘aggressive’ development timetables for the A380 and B787. Both ended up 2 to 3 years ‘late’ and both suffered significant technical issues once they were flying passengers. And then there was the B737 Max.
Now we have vaccinations that have been developed in record time. What could possibly go wrong especially if normal vaccine development takes at least 2 years?

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sskinner
sskinner
4 years ago

It’s win win (and win) for China. Western open societies are being crushed socially and economically. The fallout from this will be a general distrust (or hatred even) of capitalism and democracy which for any revolutionary is a win. None of this is good unless we can regain the true value and reason for open society. If the phases of humanity are cyclical it could be another 500 years before we come back round to open societies.

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CovidiousAlbion
CovidiousAlbion
4 years ago
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Thousand-Year Reich

https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html

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