[Thread]. 1. Wondering how many people SA has to vaccinate per day to use up our 80 000 J&J jabs in 14 days? (The next batch of 80 000 will arrive 2 weeks after the 1st). Co-principal investigator of our implementation study @LindaGailBekker says between 6000 + 8000. Here’s why.
2. This morning we had around 65 000 of our first batch of 80 0000 J&J #CovidVaccines left, says @LindaGailBekker. So we vaccinated about 5000 #HealthWorkers on Sunday (on Sunday the health department said we had vaccinated just more than 10 000 workers by the end of Saturday).
3. @LindaGailBekker says the official start date for #COVID vaccination was Thursday, 18 Feb. (The jabs arrived just before midnight on Tuesday, 16 February, and had to be transported across the country to sites, so only a few vaccinations were done on Wednesday, 17 February).
4. “We’re giving ourselves until Thu, March 4 to use up the batch,” says @LindaGailBekker. "We hope to hit our target of 80 000 by 14 days — we have 10 days left to get there. So we need between 6000 + 8000 vaccinations per day [obvs not 8000 each day, or we'll run out of jabs]."
5. If we work on an average of 6500 vaccinations per day (we’ve got 10 days left to use 65 000 jabs), it works out to an average of 361 vaccinations per day per site (there are 18 sites). But sites’ capacity differ, as well as the capacity within provinces.
6. To find out how many jabs each of the 18 sites received, use our @bhekisisa_MG interactive map: tabsoft.co/2OCkrWI
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