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[–] merridew 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's under this heading:

How is the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine being distributed?

Pfizer has activated its extensive U.S. and European manufacturing network, including thousands of highly skilled U.S. workers in multiple states and localities, to prepare to produce the COVID-19 vaccine. We currently have the capacity to produce 4 billion doses annually, pending demand.

Influenza they reckon could be scaled up to between 6-8 billion annually, if needed.

[–] midgephoto@photog.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@merridew sounds fair. Potential, easily available.
Someone might chip in at this point, noting the suggested rate, to ask if we can think of anything else to spend G£400 on that might be more useful.
And most of us would point to some sort of crossover, applying some resources to this and some to (those) other things.
And then there are the loonies, quacks, and horrors with their views, but enough of them.

I suspect ...

[–] midgephoto@photog.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@merridew
... suspect we are under-immjnising; boosting here, and our interests would be better served by assisting more distant neighbours more.

[–] merridew 1 points 1 year ago

Well you are free to suspect that.

But I'm not going to put the health of my family on hold pending the (impossible) total eradication of global health inequity.