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Capacity is not an issue - it's supply.

I imagine kids will get an inhaled version at school if it can be developed.

Capacity is not an issue - it's supply.

I imagine kids will get an inhaled version at school if it can be developed.

I think I posted on here a few weeks ago that OAZ were conducting a trial with the vaccine on children Stecks . Not sure how that's going, as there appears to be little media interest in this just now. I imagine that will change as the vaccination programme works it's way down the age groups.

I wasn't really referring to the child testing - I imagine that will take months to complete.

I just meant, if we had enough vaccine - I think they would easily double what they are doing. Maybe get as high as 10 million a week. That's my anecdotal observation based on conversations with a few people working in the field (GPs etc). By all accounts, they could do a lot more if they had the supplies.

So vaccinating children wouldn't really slow anything down.

I suspect take-up will be much lower in the 20-30s also.

More clotting problems for OAZ. Doesn't seem to be going away.

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The number of incidents lodged with MHRA makes it 1 in every 600,000 vaccinations given.. Probably a higher number in reality, but still favourable odds, I guess..

Thought I heard something on the radio about the numbers for Pfizer being comparable?

BBC this morning said 30 cases of blood clots with 7 of those dying after taking OAZ. Pfizer has 2. They are looking into the cause as nothing confirmed clots caused by the vaccines yet.

Lurker - I think that relates to the specific clot that they are very concerned about. Judging on some of the international reporting, it's looking very likely that there is a relationship with the vaccine.

As a statistician, aren’t these numbers so low compared to the numbers vaccinated to make the correlation redundant?

Though it more than likely affects those who have some sort of pre-existing condition (not necessarily diagnosed) otherwise why the very small numbers?

It’s only from Twitter but being reported only 68k first jabs done in the last 24 hours. I think that can be classified as “very disappointing”.