Literally the CEOs of Pfizer and Moderna have both said this in the past week.
EDIT: If you want to know the anti-vaxers narrative on this, read my family’s face book, because it’s exactly the opposite of “we can’t give out shots forever”, it’s “they want us to be on shots forever”
I think we can vaccinate at that rate; it would have been handy to be able to do so in 2020. I think we would have to reallocate resources to do so, with great effectiveness.
The open markets won’t do that effectively, but governments can, working with private resources for efficiency.
It has taken 10 months from breaking ground to create the new Biologics Manufacturing Centre under the auspices of the National Research Council. It is capable of 2 million doses a month. There are some teething problems, but we’re basically there. That does leave us shy of a 6 month cycle for even our own population, but shows what is possible if a decision is made and funded. If we choose to do that again (and I think we should do so, twice) then we will have a surplus worthy of our G7 status.
What would happen if we took 10% of the talent currently focused on mining personal data for the surveillance economy and writing dating apps, and focused it on pandemic preparation? I think we’d be in a better place.
These guys have come up with a potentially game changing option for vaccinating the world.
It’s not mRNA based, so not so quick to adapt, but is low-tech, cheap and does not have the cold chain issues that make mRNA tough to apply in less developed areas. It can be done, but the will? That seems to be the sticking point.
Though, in debate you also aren’t going to win if your argument is “Nuh-uh!” followed by “You can’t make me!”
Releasing an omicron-specific vaccine soon enough to a large enough population and we can shut this thing down. Done right and quick and to enough people and subsequent updates won’t be necessary. When R drops well below one, we’re (theoretically) clear of it.
In his traveler declaration forms, which were filed on Jan. 1, Djokovic answered “no” when he was asked: “Have you travelled or will you travel in the 14 days prior to your flight to Australia?” But the star player may have been caught out by photos that appear to show him celebrating Christmas in Belgrade before flying to Australia from Spain on Jan. 4. The Australian government’s website warns that the maximum penalty for providing “false or misleading information” about travel is 12 months in prison. Djokovic has not commented on the reports.