04-16-2021, 01:22 PM
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/moderna...-1.5990166
Some good and some bad news on vaccine availability. Moderna is going to fall 1-2M doses short of their contract for this quarter (Apr-Jun), but we've secured an additional 6M from Pfizer for this quarter. So that's net an additional 4-5M doses in Q2.
That catch is it's going to be very heavily biased towards June. Pfizer will be deliver 2.5M/week, and Moderna is indicating most of the doses they do deliver will be later in the quarter. I think 4-5M doses/week just between Pfizer and Moderna seems likely for June, which is 571k-714k doses/day for June that we'll have to administer. Our current 7 day average is 279k doses/day (include Astra-Zeneca), so that's a pretty big increase. The public health mass vaccination clinics will have to run long hours.
The additional ~1M/week (total ~2M/week) from Pfizer for May is great news though. That's more than we likely would have gotten for Pfizer + Moderna in May before this announcement.
Some good and some bad news on vaccine availability. Moderna is going to fall 1-2M doses short of their contract for this quarter (Apr-Jun), but we've secured an additional 6M from Pfizer for this quarter. So that's net an additional 4-5M doses in Q2.
That catch is it's going to be very heavily biased towards June. Pfizer will be deliver 2.5M/week, and Moderna is indicating most of the doses they do deliver will be later in the quarter. I think 4-5M doses/week just between Pfizer and Moderna seems likely for June, which is 571k-714k doses/day for June that we'll have to administer. Our current 7 day average is 279k doses/day (include Astra-Zeneca), so that's a pretty big increase. The public health mass vaccination clinics will have to run long hours.
The additional ~1M/week (total ~2M/week) from Pfizer for May is great news though. That's more than we likely would have gotten for Pfizer + Moderna in May before this announcement.