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Here's how government projections of how much AstraZeneca vaccine would be ready by Jan 1 slipped...(@FactCheck thread)
May 2020: the talk is of 30 million doses by September.
August: the target appears to have slipped to 15 million doses by the end of 2020.
November: the head of the UK Vaccine Taskforce says we will probably have 4 million doses by the end of the year.
January 1 2021: 530,000 doses are ready for immediate use.
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