The E.U. will soon seal its rejection of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine by signing off on the world’s biggest vaccine deal yet, buying up to 1.8 billion doses of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine to last until 2023. The Telegraph has the story.
The vaccines from the U.S. drugmaker and its German partner BioNTech would be delivered over 2021-2023, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said during a visit to Pfizer’s vaccine plant in Puurs, Belgium.
The agreement would be enough to inoculate the 450 million E.U. population for two years and comes as the bloc seeks to shore up long-term supplies.
This is the third contract agreed by the bloc with the two companies, which have already agreed to supply 600 million doses of the two-dose vaccine this year under two previous contracts.
European Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday that the E.U. will have enough to inoculate at least 70% of E.U. adults by the end of July.
The E.U. Chief had previously set a goal of late September.
An E.U. official said the supply deal was agreed in principle but that both sides needed a few days to iron out final terms.
“We will conclude in the next days. It will secure the doses necessary to give booster shots to increase immunity,” Ms von der Leyen said at a briefing at the Puurs factory.
Pfizer has scrambled to boost output in recent months at its U.S. and Belgian plants to meet growing demand.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said Puurs is expected to have the capacity to produce more than 100 million doses by May.
A new study by Oxford University and the ONS has found that one dose of the Pfizer vaccine reduces Covid infections by 65%. The same is true of the AstraZeneca vaccine, according to the study, but many European countries have come to distrust the vaccine because of its link to blood clots (the risk of which has been upgraded in the past two weeks). Thirty three per cent of Danes would refuse to take the AZ vaccine, according to a survey, while in Sicily the refusal rate is said to be closer to 80%. On top of concerns about cases of blood clotting, the European Commission has criticised AstraZeneca for cutting its vaccine deliveries to the bloc and is now preparing legal proceedings against the drugmaker, according to reports. The E.U.’s contract with AZ included 400 million doses of the Covid vaccine, 100 million of which were optional. The bloc, which has tightened its bond with Pfizer, has decided against taking this option up.
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“A new study by Oxford University and the ONS has found that one dose of the Pfizer vaccine reduces Covid infections by 65%“
Relative risk.Pure bollocks.
‘Worth reading in full’? Nope.
But it doesn’t prevent infection and it doesn’t prevent transmission. So it’s not a vaccine. But it might reduce your symptoms if you catch the not especially deadly virus. And you need repeated boosters to ensure you continue to be susceptible to infection or transmission, or else there’s a danger you might catch the virus and develop complete immunity.
It’s an interesting business model.
Coming soon, a car that doesn’t move, a plane that doesn’t fly, and a teapot made of chocolate.
Money Vs. Science – YouTube
About2 minutes in, the vaccine business
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“buying up to 1.8 billion doses of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine to last until 2023”
That will be about the same time they complete their clinical trials and we’ll know whether they’re safe or not.
Hmm, we may know whether they are fairly safe for 2 years after injection. And even that requires that we believe the stated ‘results’ of their studies.
Good stuff -make it 1.8 billion doses of the gunk plus 2 that have my name on them. No charge for the latter.
I wonder how quality control holds up in such quantities
Is anyone else’s head completely melted from trying to understand claims such as
“The vaccines were more effective against symptomatic than asymptomatic infections, reducing rates by 72% and 57% respectively, compared with those seen in the unvaccinated population.”
What is the mechanism that reduces the occurrence of an infection with zero symptoms by 57%?
Are we talking about PCR here? I mean what kind of bonkers world am I am now living in?
Do these vaccines somehow bat the Covid particles away from your body? An invisible shield of some kind.
Someone commit me now.
The thing is threefold re. those two junk figures coming out from pharma-dependent academe :
So what.
And?
Sorry I’ve had ‘some’ wine therefore don’t actually give a shit what the eeeeyoouuu do.