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23 Jul, 3 tweets, 2 min read
[Thread] 1. Milani Wolmarans:
80% of people scheduled via the #EVDS for vaccinations are turning up for their appointments at sites on the right date and time Image
2. By the end of the 1st week of August, SAs will be able to schedule their own vaccination appointments (dates and site). @HealthZA will make available a manual on how to do that. This slide shows how it will work. Image
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24 Jul
[Thread] 1. NEWS about #JnJ DELIVERIES:
1. SA will receive a consignment of 1.4 million #JnJ doses this coming week (confirmed by @HealthZA)
2. The doses will be rolled out at #VaccineRollOutSA sites from the week of Aug 2
2. What are we doing with our current #JnJ doses?
1. Initially, we only used them for essential workers, e.g. teachers
2. But the doses expire on Aug 11, and we now know more JnJ stock is coming, so @HealthZA has moved some doses to sites for use in the general roll-out.
3. What will happen to essential worker programmes?
@HealthZA will complete the current programmes as soon as possible and then move onto to prioritisation based on age only (because essential worker programmes require time-consuming admin which causes delays)
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23 Jul
[Thread] Glenda Gray, @MRCza:
1. The only way to bring the #COVID19 pandemic under control, is to vaccinate a large % of SA
2. Everyone needs to be vaccinated, not just 20%/30% of the population
3. Only 1.1% of people in low income countries have received one #CovidVaccine dose
2. Glenda Gray:
1. The benefits of vaccines far outweigh the occurrence of side effects
2. Severe side effects, such as rare/unique types of blood clots associated with #JnJ and heart inflammation associated with #Pfizer are very uncommon
3. Glenda Gray: How rare is rare?
1. For #JnJ, rare blood clots = 3 cases for every mil doses among adults
2. For JnJ, Guillain-Barre syndrome = 7.8 cases for every million doses among adults

* What is Guilain-Barre syndrome? Find out here: mayocl.in/3wZWqJV
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23 Jul
[Thread] 1. #Kubayi: We lost 47 500 #COVID vaccines during the #unrest (this has gone up since earlier this week) that were stolen or destroyed. 120 private pharmacies were destroyed.
2. #Kubayi: Most public vaccine sites in KZN were not damaged during the #unrest and this enabled us to resume vaccinations in KZN as quickly as possible.
3. In Gauteng there was minimum interruption to vaccinations because of the #unrest. But people did fear to go to certain sites. But the disruption in KZN and GT was not only to the vaccine programmes, but people were also not able to access chronic meds.
Read 5 tweets
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21 Jul
JUST IN:
[Thread] 1. SA's Biovac will become the 1st company in Africa to produce Pfizer's #COVID19 jab
- Biovac won't produce the jab from scratch, it will import the drug substance (the active ingredient which makes the jab work) from Europe + "fill and finish" the jab in SA
2. Pfizer is an mRNA vaccine:
- Tech transfer (so Pfizer transferring the "know-how" of mRNA technology) will start immediately
- Tech transfer will include
* On-site development of Biovac's factory
* Equipment installation
3.
1. When will we production start?
By the beginning of 2022

2. Who will get the doses Biovac produces? Only African Union member states

3. How many doses will be produced? 100 mil+ annually (at full operation)
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21 Jul
[Thread] 1. What % of SA adults have been fully or partially vaccinated?

1. Fully vaccinated: 4.7% (Limpopo = 6.2%)
2. Partially vaccinated (1 #Pfizer dose): 9.1% (1 dose provides 94% protection @ hospitalisation as a result of infection with the #DeltaVariant)
2. Is #VaccineRollOutSA scaling up? Yes. Here’s the timeline for every 1 mil doses recorded on the #EVDS (data = @healthza dashboard):

1 mil: 28 May
2 mil: 16 Jun (19 days)
3 mil: 30 Jun (14 days)
4 mil: 8 Jul (8 days)
5 mil 16 Jul (8 days)

Graph = @mediahackza/@Bhekisisa_MG
3. What does the 1-mil timeline in the previous tweet tell us? We now take 8 days to administer 1-mil jabs. Initially we took between 14 + 19 days. If we reach #Ramaphosa’s goal of 300 000 jabs/day, we’ll get close to 1 mil jabs every 3 days (we’re now doing about 220 000/day).
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20 Jul
[Thread] 1. On Mon we did 223, 969 daily vaccinations — by far the most daily jabs since the start of #VaccineRollOutSA. How many #COVIDvaccine doses have we got left?

Answer: By the end of Mon, we had 2.8 mil doses (#Pfizer + #JnJ) left (confirmed by @healthza).
2. Where do 2.8 mil #COVIDvaccine doses leave us?
1. If we use 220 000 doses/day, we have 12.7 days of stock
2. We start with full w/end vaccinations on Aug 1
3. 12.7 days takes us to +/-Aug 3 (if we don’t count 24, 25, 30 Jul = w/end days + work with 20-30k jabs/w/end day)
3. So will we run out of jabs on Aug 3?
Answer: NO.

Why not?
Because we have consistent weekly batches of #Pfizer stock arriving.
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