DM from what is quoted they haven't run out of vaccine.

As I understand it there are three companies producing a vaccine that is wanted by the world by yesterday and people wonder why supplies are running short?

I do wonder sometimes.....

Gillian McLauchlan, deputy director of public health at Salford Council, described "teething" issues with the vaccine rollout there.

She told councillors at a local scrutiny committee: "We have no control over vaccine supplies. We are told literally two days in advance 'your next lot of vaccines are coming'."

The government has been urged to listen to the concerns of GPs over the rollout of COVID vaccines in order to avoid "frustrating and demoralising" doctors and "confusing and disappointing" patients.

On Thursday, GP surgeries across England received their first deliveries of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine and began administering the jabs to patients.

GP Ammara Hughes said Mr Hancock was "quite surprised actually to learn that we don't know when all of our deliveries are coming".

Dr Hughes said the surgery had initially been told their delivery of the Oxford vaccine had been delayed 24 hours, although they later took a delivery of 400 doses at around 4pm on Thursday.

GPs have also reported delays or cancellations with supplies of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which was the first jab to be approved and used in the UK.

Dr Richard van Mellaerts, a GP in Kingston-upon-Thames in Surrey, told Sky News: "We had been expecting a delivery of two batches next week of the Pfizer vaccine.

"So just over 2,200 vaccines which we were hoping would be coming in on Monday, as our previous deliveries had done.

"We've now heard that those deliveries have been cancelled."

Erm ..... yes, they could ..... all the best "outbreak" movies include the "mutation" scenario and, AFAIK, so do all the best pandemic planning exercises .....

Sounds like the Birmingham city council are at fault Omah!
They should be liasing with whoever distributes the vaccine not
waiting around and communicating via the media !!

Donkeyman! 👎🤔👎

When a city with over 1,000,000 inhabitants doesn't know when its' next delivery of vaccine is due, with only 24 hours supply left, then I'd say that's more than a "glitch" .....

Incidentally, the article does say "A full vaccine deployment plan is due to be published on Monday." so it does appear that many engaged in the deployment are indeed still 'left in the dark' ..... "in the middle of a disaster".

What I would like to know if possible is, if you had the Pfeizer jab first time, does it have to be Pfeizer one again for the follow up?

Andy Street, the Birmingham Mayor, was on the BBC Midlands News last night saying this was a load of bull. Here's the link to the item.



Yes, you can't mix these vaccines. At least that's what the science correspondent on BBC Midlands News said when asked the same question the other evening.

I'm really surprised at that Percy, because I understood these two vaccines don't work in the same way?

My DIL is a nurse, and she's just had her first Pfeizer jab yesterday, so I will ask her. I know she as got to wait the 12 week space before she gets the next one.
She said her arm throbbing kept waking her up last night.

Sorry if I'm misleading you Mups. If you have the Pfizer vaccine first, you MUST have the Pfizer vaccine for the second jab. You cannot mix the different vaccines because they use different technologies.

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Sorry Percy, I misread your previous reply.
It's me age.