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Send to Kindle The Head of the Covid-19 National Vaccine Taskforce has said there will only be a modest impact to the rollout of the vaccination programme by a temporary reduction in supplies of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine. Professor Brian MacCraith said: "After a stressful day, it has been very relieving news to hear from Pfizer this evening that the proposed reduction will only apply to one week and that is this coming week." Prof MacCraith said he was assured by the Chief Executive of Pfizer in a conference call this evening that the production of the vaccine will return to the normal sch...

Extending period between shots could maximise numbers vaccinated in rollout

Prolonging interval between Covid vaccine shots to aid rollout speed examined Extending period between shots could maximise numbers vaccinated in rollout Sat, Jan 2, 2021, 01:00 Prof Brian MacCraith, chair of the State’s Covid-19 taskforce, said the issue of increasing the gap between vaccine doses had been discussed by the group in recent days. Photograph: Adam Warzawa/EPA Your Web Browser may be out of date. If you are using Internet Explorer 9, 10 or 11 our Audio player will not work properly.   The State is to examine if the period between the two required doses of Covid-19 vaccinati...

Derby winning jockey Geoff Lewis receives the first of two injections with a dose of the Pfizer/BioNtech covid-19 vaccine from nurse Justine Braid at a NHS vaccine centre at Epsom in Surrey (PA) “The exact details of how many staff will be required by vaccination centre is still being worked through at the moment.” He said he had held discussions with Wicklow IT, NUI Galway, University of Limerick and the University College Cork about using their facilities for vaccinations. He added: “All four of these institutions, in terms of areas like their major sports arenas and centres, were ver...

It has not yet been confirmed when the first batches will arrive. It may be the end of the year before everyone who wants a vaccine can be offered one. Dr Karina Butler, who is chair of the immunisation advisory committee, said it may be the wrong time of year to be “descending “ on nursing homes with the vaccine. People over 65 in long-term care and frontline healthcare workers are first in line for the vaccine. She said “we have to recognise” the time of year and it is important to look at what is practical to do with the first limited batch of vaccines.