Revised Schedule for Release of US Swine Flu Vaccine

[indigo girl]

Any foreign vaccine manufacturer (and most are not located in North America) will most likely meet the demands of their host country first which is exactly what happened with Australia. Expect the rest of them to do likewise.

Lots of other things can, and do go wrong. You are surprised?

As of 2-weeks ago, at the July ACIP meeting on vaccines, we heard from Dr. Robin Robinson that 120 million doses of vaccine could be available by October, and that another 80 million doses a month could be expected after that.

Today, that quantity has been `downsized' to about 45 million doses in October, followed by roughly 20 million doses a week coming online after that.

Problems with manufacturing yields were cited, along with one of the suppliers (CSL of Australia) being unable to export vaccine until `local obligations' had been met.

More at:

http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2009/08/revised-vaccine-estimates-from-nbsb.html

[oramar]

Thanks, no one that reads this thread is surprised. Matter of fact we all raised an eyebrow when they made those earlier claims. Couldn't see how they could have possible met those deadlines but I was hoping they were telling the truth.