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2 Mar, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Amazed that in all the coverage this evening on the #rtenews there was no mention of us missing, by a lot, our own modest vaccination target of 100k for last week.

We’re quick enough to publicly hammer citizens for prolonging this pandemic but not others, it seems.
Maybe it was covered in the earlier bulletin.

I did hear @kierancuddihy on @NewstalkFM cover it strongly.
We got a push notification on a party in Limerick though. And immediate comment from the relevant Minister.

Is missing your own vaccination target a gentle flick in the face? A Chinese burn?
Seems rather unwise to have put those partying students in Limerick in charge of both the EU vaccination procurement process and the Irish vaccine rollout.
Being covered this morning. We fell 18,000 short of our 100,000 target last week.

rte.ie/news/coronavir…
And this is why getting vaccinations in to people quickly is so important. This chart is amazing.

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Karl Brophy Profile picture
5 Mar
Targets:

Last week - 100,000 (Missed by 18,000).

This week - 92,000 (Will be missed by a lot, apparently).

Next week - 84,000
On the 23rd February, just 10 days ago, @MichealMartinTD told us that we would administer 1.25 million vaccines “by the end of March”.

merrionstreet.ie/en/news-room/s… Image
We'll hit 500,000 this week apparently and, now, plan to be at around 585,000 by Sunday March 14th.

This means that we'll have to administer 665,000 doses over the last 16 days of March.
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4 Mar
Ireland has received 520,000 vaccine doses since December 26th. We have administered about 52,000 vaccines to people who are not frontline healthcare worker or residents in long-term care facilities. Image
Proportionally, Malta, also in the EU, has administered approximately 70% more vaccine doses than Ireland has even received in to the country.
The latest figure is actually 54,000 ‘community’ vaccinations in total. All over the age of 85.

In 27 days’ time we’re supposed to be in a position to be able to do 250,000 community vaccinations a week at a rate of 30,000-40,000 per day.
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4 Mar
The Pfizer vaccine is approved by the EMA and Malta, also in the EU, appears to have just paid more than double the dose price to get its hands on more vaccines.
They’re just paying an extra €16 per dose.

timesofmalta.com/articles/view/…
The difference in price is less than two hours’ worth of a PUP payment
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7 Jan 19
This is a good deal.

But it does show how the economics of newspapers have changed dramatically.

This deal works out at about 17 cents an edition for digital access.

The cover price for a physical Indo or Irish Times is €2.20, thirteen times more expensive.
When newspaper sales starting falling it wasn’t actually that fewer people were buying them.

It was that they were buying them less often, known as Frequency of Sale.

Monday editions were particularly interesting. It used to be a very big sale day.
But men between 22 and 40 who were big in to sport were amongst the first to migrate online to places like Football365 and elsewhere.

Other sports fans followed. Now Monday is usually the worst sale day of the week. By some distance. (I haven’t checked the breakdown recently)
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30 Dec 18
People need to know that pressure groups and anti-scientific campaigners are particular experts at manipulating the media at this time of year.

There are a number if reasons for this:
People have had weeks (up to a month in some cases) of over indulgence. Loads and loads of nice stuff.

They’ve probably put on a bit of weight and all.

It’s from this week that people start planning to be virtuous.
The media reflects this. Newspapers, television shows and online will be replete with various diets/resolutions and “healthy eating” guidance over the coming days.

Newspapers are blotting paper for food charlatans and campaigners at this time of year.
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