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4 Jun, 5 tweets, 4 min read
[Thread] 11. LATEST #VaccineRolloutSA figures:
1. The total nr of #JandJ + #Pfizer 1st (of 2) shots by Wed: 1 193 352
2. Nr of #Pfizer shots on Wed: 1 193 352 - 1 117 569 = 75 783 (on Tue 72 456 shots were given).
3. Total nr of Pfizer shots: 637 801 (Wed) + 75 783 = 713 584
2. Can we do more than +/- 75 000 shots/day?
@HealthZA's Nicholas Crisp says no, not until we get our #JandJ jabs (or additional Pfizer/other brands). Why? Otherwise we run the risk of using up the jabs before the next #Pfizer batch arrives, and will have to stop and start.
3. How many #Pfizer jabs have we got?
* By Jun 1 we had 1,937,520 doses
* Of the 1,937,520 doses, 1,294,020 have been distributed to sites (we had used 713 584 of the 1,294, 020 by Wed)
* The batch of 636,480 of 31 May is still under quarantine
* Next batch: 636 480 on 7 Jun
4. How many #VaccineRolloutSA shots can we (right now) give per day if all the jabs we ordered (including #JandJ) arrive on schedule? @healthza's Nicholas Crisp says well over 100 000, likely about 150 000.
5. What do we know about the release of our #JandJ jabs? The FDA is expected to announce a decision today. Crisp says "nothing is final yet". However, there's a KZN hlth dpt circular circulating on Twitter that says we'll have the jabs by next week (veracity = not confirmed).

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6 Jun
[Thread] 1. Why did the #FDA not make an announcement on Friday about whether SA can release its #JnJ jabs from Aspen in Gqeberha? bit.ly/3uXc6wr
2. The FDA needed to do a final inspection of Emergent BioSolutions, the company which makes #JnJ's key ingredient. Why? In March, they found 1 batch of ingredients to be contaminated + stopped all production. The company needs to pass an inspection before production can resume.
3. What were the jabs contaminated with? With ingredients of the #AstraZeneca jab. How? Emergent Biosolutions also made the key ingredient of the AZ jab — they produced the #JnJ and AZ key ingredients in one factory + weren't careful enough. That's how the contamination happened.
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4 Jun
[Thread]1. When can a province start to vaccinate people of 40+? When 70% of people of 60+ in a province had been vaccinated, @HealthZA said in a presentation this week. #VaccineRolloutSA
2. How many people of 60+ are there? About 5 mil. How many have we vaccinated? We only know we had given 713 584 #Pfizer jabs by Wed, @healthza hasn't given a breakdown of how many are #HealthWorkers and how many are people of 60+. #VaccineRolloutSA
3. What do we know? We have a breakdown of registration figures. 2 247 753 people of 60+ have registered on the EVDS, so about 45%. We've given 713 584 (that's 14% of 5 mil) shots so far (some = HCWs), so we've got a long way to go before we've reached 70% of people of 60+.
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3 Jun
[Thread] 1. When will we hear if Aspen can release SA’s #JandJ jabs from their Gqebera plant and why can’t the country itself just give the go ahead? @healthza’s Nicholas Crisp says the #FDA has told him they’ll make an announcement on Fri (tomorrow).
2. The FDA can decide:
1. Our #JandJ jabs haven’t been contaminated + can be released.
2. Some batches are fine, some not. Only some can be released.
2. All jabs = contaminated +can’t be used.
3. Our jabs can't be used the US, but Sahpra can decide if we can use them in SA.
3. Why is the #FDA making this decision and not SA? Because Aspen has a contract with #JandJ and a US factory which manufactured the key ingredient (API) for our jabs is being investigated by the FDA.
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1 Jun
[Thread] 1. SUNDAY #VaccineRolloutSA figures:
* Total #Pfizer doses by end of Sun: 490 680 (everyone still needs a 2nd shot, 42 days after the 1st one)
* Pfizer doses given on Sun: 2 129
* Pfizer doses from 24 May (Mo) - 30 May (Su): 318 820 (vs. the previous week's 171 860)
2. What's the total number of #CovidVaccinations we've done so far?
* #Pfizer: 490 680 (these people aren't fully vaccinated, they still need second shots)
* #JandJ (via #Sisonke): 479 768 (these #HealthWorkers are fully vaccinated)
* Total nr of Pfizer and J&J shots: 970 448
3. How many #Pfizer doses do we have? @healthza's Nicholas Crisp says:
- 1.3 mil have been distributed to sites
- We had used +/- 500 000 by Sun, so we had +/- 700 000 left
- We got 636 000 more on Mon. They can only be used in a wk's time after quality testing had been done
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30 May
1. #CyrilRampahosa: 67% of health workers have been vaccinated. IN total: 960 000 people in SA have received 1 #COVID vaccination dose (either #Pfizer or #JandJ). Over the next days, we would have administered 1 vaccination dose to more than 1-million of the most vulnerable SAs.
2. #CyrilRampahosa: SA has secured enough vaccines to cover all adults:
* 31 million #JandJ doses (this is a single dose jab)
* 20 million #Pfizer doses (this vaccine requires two doses, 42 days apart)
3. #CyrilRampahosa: SA's #JandJ jabs have been delayed because of a lack of adherence to proper standards at a US factory. We're waiting for these issues to be resolved before our J&J jabs can be released from Aspen in EC. We are in constant contact with the relevant authorities.
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30 May
[Thread] 1.#CyrilRamaphosa: The nr of infections has begun to rise. We now have an average of 3745 daily new #COVID19 infections. This in an increase of 31% vs the previous week and 66% of week before that.
2. #CyrilRamaphosa: The proportion of #COVID19 tests that come out positive has doubled over the past month from 4% to 11%. A positivity rate of over 5% is a cause for concern. The Free State, Northern Cape and Gauteng have reached that threshold. They are in a third wave.
3. #CyrilRamaphosa: It is only matter of time before the entire country reaches a third wave. The increasing nr of social gatherings where people are not wearing masks or social distance or gather in large groups have contributed to this.
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