Vaccine Rollout
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Biden administration to buy 500 million Pfizer coronavirus vaccine doses to donate to the world
“… The first 200 million doses will be distributed this year, with the subsequent 300 million shared in the first half of next year. The doses will be distributed by Covax, the World Health Organization-backed initiative to share doses around the globe, and they will be targeted at low- and middle-income countries. Pfizer is selling the doses to the U.S. at a “not-for-profit” price, according to the people familiar with the deal, …”
@axtremus said in Vaccine Rollout:
Biden administration to buy 500 million Pfizer coronavirus vaccine doses to donate to the world
Gosh I hate to split hairs, but the taxpayers are buying those doses. Taxpayers and our future generations servicing the debt.
You're welcome, world.
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@axtremus said in Vaccine Rollout:
Biden administration to buy 500 million Pfizer coronavirus vaccine doses to donate to the world
Gosh I hate to split hairs, but the taxpayers are buying those doses. Taxpayers and our future generations servicing the debt.
You're welcome, world.
@horace said in Vaccine Rollout:
the taxpayers are buying those doses
Wonder what that half-a-billion doses cost.
Pfizer is selling the doses to the United States at a “not-for-profit” price, according to the people familiar with the deal, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share details that were not yet public.
"Not-for-profit" ≠ "free."
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I'd happily not receive any more government stimulus checks if it pays for this.
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$15 - $20 cost per dose
500,000,000 x $16 (low end estimate) = $8,000,000,000
$8,000,000,000 / 141,000,000 US taxpayers
= about $56 each
@copper said in Vaccine Rollout:
$15 - $20 cost per dose
500,000,000 x $16 (low end estimate) = $8,000,000,000
$8,000,000,000 / 141,000,000 US taxpayers
= about $56 each
No, you and I are paying for 4-5 each... Soros and Bezos are pulling their resources for 1 shot...
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https://abcnews.go.com/Health/cities-reached-bidens-70-vaccination-goal/story?id=78195531
List of US cities that have crossed the 70% vaccination mark.
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High death tolls are good motivation.
Would be interesting to take a look at vaccination rates by race. At least down here, it seems like the black community has a better vaccination rate, especially in urban areas.
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High death tolls are good motivation.
Would be interesting to take a look at vaccination rates by race. At least down here, it seems like the black community has a better vaccination rate, especially in urban areas.
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@copper said in Vaccine Rollout:
@jolly said in Vaccine Rollout:
the black community has a better vaccination rate
Meaning higher?
Yep. New Orleans got their attention, IMO.
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@jolly said in Vaccine Rollout:
Don't know. Got a link?
Over 99% actually. But I hear ivermectin is a miracle drug.
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@jolly said in Vaccine Rollout:
Don't know. Got a link?
Over 99% actually. But I hear ivermectin is a miracle drug.
@loki said in Vaccine Rollout:
@jolly said in Vaccine Rollout:
Don't know. Got a link?
Over 99% actually. But I hear ivermectin is a miracle drug.
When you got nothing else....Cuz' I got my doubts about Remdesivir...
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When somebody would rather take Invermectin or HCQ than get vaccinated, you've got to think there's something amiss....
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When somebody would rather take Invermectin or HCQ than get vaccinated, you've got to think there's something amiss....
@doctor-phibes said in Vaccine Rollout:
When somebody would rather take Invermectin or HCQ than get vaccinated, you've got to think there's something amiss.
Agreed. But the two should not be exclusionary.
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@doctor-phibes said in Vaccine Rollout:
When somebody would rather take Invermectin or HCQ than get vaccinated, you've got to think there's something amiss.
Agreed. But the two should not be exclusionary.
@george-k said in Vaccine Rollout:
@doctor-phibes said in Vaccine Rollout:
When somebody would rather take Invermectin or HCQ than get vaccinated, you've got to think there's something amiss.
Agreed. But the two should not be exclusionary.
Agree. And it’s very important for other countries who have much less access to the vaccine.
In the US, however, the vaccine is the clear winner by a country mile.
It’s unnerving to see the anti-vaxxers spread all this nonsense that makes it look like alt medicines are a better path. I also wasted some time this weekend looking at the wild fire spread of magnet nonsense with the vaccine. Worse yet one should watch the HBO documentary on Q Anon and 8 Chan. The people imvolved speak for themselves and one quickly realizes these people are about as uneducated to reality as it gets but somehow have tapped into the reptilian brain of a subset of people…almost schizophrenia…where people see and hear things that are clinically insane.
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@xenon said in Vaccine Rollout:
Agreed on the taxpayer part. But, this is one bill I’m happy to pay.
Exactly. I think this is great what the US is doing. The world is so combined now, that the quicker the total world gets back to normal, the better it is for the US. And somewhat joking (but not really) US total spending Sept 2019 - Sept 2020 was USD$6.55 TRILLION. USD$8B out of that is about 0.1% (if I did my math correct).
The amount of positive economic effects, foreign relation effects, etc. are much more "bang for the buck" than many of the things that the US government does.
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@george-k said in Vaccine Rollout:
@doctor-phibes said in Vaccine Rollout:
When somebody would rather take Invermectin or HCQ than get vaccinated, you've got to think there's something amiss.
Agreed. But the two should not be exclusionary.
Agree. And it’s very important for other countries who have much less access to the vaccine.
In the US, however, the vaccine is the clear winner by a country mile.
It’s unnerving to see the anti-vaxxers spread all this nonsense that makes it look like alt medicines are a better path. I also wasted some time this weekend looking at the wild fire spread of magnet nonsense with the vaccine. Worse yet one should watch the HBO documentary on Q Anon and 8 Chan. The people imvolved speak for themselves and one quickly realizes these people are about as uneducated to reality as it gets but somehow have tapped into the reptilian brain of a subset of people…almost schizophrenia…where people see and hear things that are clinically insane.
@loki said in Vaccine Rollout:
In the US, however, the vaccine is the clear winner by a country mile.
This!!!! How can people not realize that the reason the US is able to "open up" is due to the vaccine??
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@george-k said in Vaccine Rollout:
@doctor-phibes said in Vaccine Rollout:
When somebody would rather take Invermectin or HCQ than get vaccinated, you've got to think there's something amiss.
Agreed. But the two should not be exclusionary.
Agree. And it’s very important for other countries who have much less access to the vaccine.
In the US, however, the vaccine is the clear winner by a country mile.
It’s unnerving to see the anti-vaxxers spread all this nonsense that makes it look like alt medicines are a better path. I also wasted some time this weekend looking at the wild fire spread of magnet nonsense with the vaccine. Worse yet one should watch the HBO documentary on Q Anon and 8 Chan. The people imvolved speak for themselves and one quickly realizes these people are about as uneducated to reality as it gets but somehow have tapped into the reptilian brain of a subset of people…almost schizophrenia…where people see and hear things that are clinically insane.
@loki said in Vaccine Rollout:
The people imvolved speak for themselves and one quickly realizes these people are about as uneducated to reality as it gets but somehow have tapped into the reptilian brain of a subset of people…almost schizophrenia…where people see and hear things that are clinically insane.
Plenty of those uneducated types where I live:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-vaccination-rates-education-correlation-1.6063373
