China Corona Virus Outbreak

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As PH hedges on Sinovac, China places order for 1 million doses of Pfizer vaccine

[kagalingan]

ang ganda talaga sense of humour ng universe.

Dati nagrereklamo na madami tao sa mall, masikip , traffic. Eh ako im enjoying nangyayari ngayon na ang gabi eh parang 1980s na nafefeel ko talaga pagkagabi wala na gaano tao pag 11pm.

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Over 200 firms support AstraZeneca deal | Philstar.com

No company is supporting the chinese made CHINA WUHAN VIRUS vaccine

[dr. d]

ang ganda talaga sense of humour ng universe.

Dati nagrereklamo na madami tao sa mall, masikip , traffic. Eh ako im enjoying nangyayari ngayon na ang gabi eh parang 1980s na nafefeel ko talaga pagkagabi wala na gaano tao pag 11pm.

even today,
marami pa ring tao sa mall, masikip, and ma-traffic sa daan.
kung wala nang tao by 11 pm, ito'y dahil sarado na rin ang mall by 11 pm.
kags should know about nightlife past 11 pm. naglilibot pa rin siya kahit past 11 pm nah...
heh heh.

[BratPAQ]

may host sa GMA news tv sabi nagtataka siya baket daw wala nag aaply ng EUA

haha

nakapaka-importanteng market pala ang pinas na mag uunahan mga pharma mag apply ng EUA

sino ba mas kailangan kanino?

mas kailangan ba nila tayo o tayo ang mas nangangailan sa kanila?

kung gusto ng Pinas ng bakuna huwag na lagyan ng hadlang

di lang walang hadlang, ipakita ang cold hard cash

dahil mga pharma ang siga

sila ang pinakamagandang babae sobra dami lumiligaw

Mag BFF si Duterte at XI, nangako na si BFF duterte na kay china sya bibili. Eto ngayon sina Locsin at Romualdez inaalok ang vaccine from others na mas nauuna pa china. Kung ikaw si duterte, papayag ka ba may mauna pa sa BFF mo?

[Wh1stl3r]

Para walang duda, mauna muna si Meyor at si Pooh sa bakuna ng Tsayna

[Monseratto]

Na mukhang prison island ang UK.

European countries have banned flights and ferries carrying passengers from the UK in a desperate attempt to suppress the spread of a new variant of the coronavirus that has plunged south-east England into a tier 4 lockdown

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European states ban travel from UK as new Covid strain takes hold | UK news | The Guardian

Countries ban UK flights as new coronavirus strain spreads - CNA

[kagalingan]

another sense of humour ng universe. Ang tinitira talaga ni covid puro malalamig na bansa. Sino mga atat na atat mag migration feeling wildebeest raise your hand.

[uls]

di ko alam ang detalye tungkol sa deal nila Romualdez and Locsin with Pfizer

narinig ko nag order sila Romualdez and Locsin ng 10 million doses from Pfizer without advance payment and almost got the deal done

Paano na-convince nila Romualdez at Locsin ang Pfizer mag allocate ng 10 million doses para sa Pinas without advance payment?

samantala ibang bansa kailangan magbayad muna

Ano ang pinangako nila sa Pfizer?

Ano ang hiningi ng Pfizer?

kung sino nakakaalam paki kwento naman

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Considering we don't have cold storage for it either...

di ko alam ang detalye tungkol sa deal nila Romualdez and Locsin with Pfizer

narinig ko nag order sila Romualdez and Locsin ng 10 million doses from Pfizer without advance payment and almost got the deal done

Paano na-convince nila Romualdez at Locsin ang Pfizer mag allocate ng 10 million doses para sa Pinas without advance payment?

samantala ibang bansa kailangan magbayad muna

Ano ang pinangako nila sa Pfizer?

Ano ang hiningi ng Pfizer?

kung sino nakakaalam paki kwento naman

[uls]

yes isa pa yun

kahit may dumating na bakuna ng pfizer dito... tapos?

nasaan ang ultra cold freezers natin?

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10 million doses no cash advance?

talaga lang ha

[uls]

para malinaw lang kahit libre ung china vaccine at available na di ako magpapa-bakuna

i survived all these months using only surgical mask... i'd rather wait and see

[Wh1stl3r]

COVID-19 Vaccine U.S. Distribution Fact Sheet | Pfizer

[uls]

i find it hard to believe 2 PH representatives were able to convince Pfizer to allot 10 million doses for us to be delivered in Jan 2021 WITHOUT cash advance

can anybody post the details of the negotiation?

how did those 2 guys convince Pfizer?

what did they promise Pfizer?

or what does Pfizer get in return?

parang kwentong barbero

July pa nakikipagusap na daw sa Pfizer

wala pa nga sa radar ang Pfizer/BioNTech noong July

[uls]

COVID-19 Vaccine U.S. Distribution Fact Sheet | Pfizer

just in time system

how do you do that in PH setting?

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i brought that up na dati tinatamad lang ako hanapin ung post

let's say we do get Pfizer's vaccine

pag landing ng cargo plane sa Manila airport... tapos?

where's to next?

doon na ba sa airport gagawin ang injection?

o dadalhin muna sa St Lukes BGC kasi yan ang pinaka sosy na ospital sa Pinas worthy of Pfizer's high tech vaccine

meron sila negative 70 degrees na freezer?

tapos distribution pa all over the country

logistics nightmare

[uls]

September



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November

[ale828]

PH taps India for 3M doses - Manila Standard

Getting the Pfizer vaccine would be a logistical nightmare for our government officials especially to the appointed Vaccine Czar. Even with our current Cold storage facilities which is very limited.
The Moderna and Astrazenca Vaccine is more suitable to our logistical infrastructure. Which is maybe why that is the specific vaccine the private companies are procuring.

[uls]

well i brought up the logistics nightmare thing months ago and i still stand by it

kung sa NCR mo lang gagamitin mga mRNA vaccine pwede pa

cargo plane lands... meron agad refrigerated truck naghihintay... idedeliver ang bakuna sa mga ospital naka HPG escort

within 24 hours nakapila na mga tao sa mga ospital for injection

i can picture it --- puro SUV naka pila sa St Luke's BGC and E Rod (hi anti-sosy kagalingan ano masasabi mo?)

pero distribution outside NCR?

good luck

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KSA bans all international flights into the Kingdom.

The Saudi decision comes after the U.K. warned that a new strain of the coronavirus is “out of control.” That forced France, Germany and others to suspend travel from Britain, while United Arab Emirates-based Air Arabia PJSC said Monday it will halt flights from Morocco to the U.K. until further notice.

Saudi Arabia, which has reported about 361,000 cases and 6,122 deaths, began lifting coronavirus lockdowns from May. Officials had not imposed any new restrictions since then, and the country has so far avoided another wave of infections.

Saudi Arabia Suspends International Flights Over New Covid Virus Strain - Bloomberg

[Flipo]

i find it hard to believe 2 PH representatives were able to convince Pfizer to allot 10 million doses for us to be delivered in Jan 2021 WITHOUT cash advance

can anybody post the details of the negotiation?

how did those 2 guys convince Pfizer?

what did they promise Pfizer?

or what does Pfizer get in return?

parang kwentong barbero

July pa nakikipagusap na daw sa Pfizer

wala pa nga sa radar ang Pfizer/BioNTech noong July

See if this can help. from our U.S. Ambassador..

Let’s not cry over spilled milk’
BABE’S EYE VIEW FROM WASHINGTON D.C. - Ambassador B. Romualdez (The Philippine Star) - December 20, 2020 - 12:00am

With recent controversies surrounding the Pfizer vaccine, I think it’s time for us to move on and “not cry over spilled milk.” We will still have access to the Pfizer vaccine – considered the gold standard – next year, with a few months’ delay. In hindsight, maybe I should share the blame. I should have called Secretary Duque directly to inform him about the urgency of the matter at hand. Pinggoy Duque used to work with my late brother, Dr. Quasi Romualdez, at the Department of Health.

The other night, we coordinated another phone call between Foreign Affairs Secretary Teddy Boy Locsin and US State Secretary Mike Pompeo and included in the talking points the supply of vaccines for our country. Secretary Locsin and Secretary Pompeo like each other and enjoy their conversations, which only proves that diplomacy is indeed all about good personal relationships. Secretary Pompeo promised to assist us in making sure we get our supply of vaccines at the soonest possible time.

Pfizer’s vaccines will be available around June next year since the first batch has already been committed to other countries, but our friends in Washington have assured us that there are three or four more vaccine candidates that are going to be approved soon. Among them is the vaccine being developed by biotechnology company Moderna, which has received the green light from a panel of experts from the US Food and Drug Administration to obtain an emergency use authorization (EUA), with the rollout possibly starting in the next few days. Like the vaccine from Pfizer, Moderna’s candidate vaccine is also based on a technology that makes use of genetic material known as messenger RNA or mRNA.

We are hopeful that the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) will consider the promising vaccine candidates from Moderna and Arcturus Therapeutics for inclusion in our country’s pool of COVID-19 vaccines. Both companies could potentially supply the Philippines anywhere from four to 25 million doses starting in the second half of next year or even earlier. Arcturus is a biotech firm based in California, and its candidate vaccine also uses mRNA technology like Pfizer and Moderna. Based on the experiments, the vaccine has shown very promising results with just a single dose.

Definitely, more supplies from other US vaccine developers will be made available globally next year. FedEx, which is a primary logistics partner of these developers, will most likely be transporting the vaccines to Asian countries through Clark Airport where it has a big hub – so it really makes sense for us to order these vaccines since Clark will become a major distribution point to the Asian market.

The global race to produce safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines in record time continues, with close to a hundred candidates undergoing clinical trials in various stages, 18 of them having reached the final stages of testing.

No doubt the World Health Organization is going to play a major role in making sure that many countries will be able to receive vaccine supplies. COVAX, or the COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Plan co-led by the WHO, Gavi (The Vaccine Alliance) and CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations) have been working hard in order for poorer economies to have access to safe and effective vaccines. COVAX recently announced that deals are already in place for nearly two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines that will be made available for the 92 countries that are eligible under the Gavi COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC), a financial mechanism that would enable the poorest countries to gain access to the COVID-19 vaccines. Plans are now also underway for the rollout to begin in the first quarter of 2021 depending on the regulatory approvals and the readiness of a country for delivery.

It will take time, however, to immunize the whole world, or to at least have 60 percent of the global population vaccinated in order to achieve herd immunity or herd protection. Herd immunity is achieved when most of the population is rendered immune to an infectious disease, mitigating the further spread of the disease and thereby providing indirect protection to those who are not immune.

Another good news on the horizon is the issuance of an emergency use authorization by the US FDA for the first ever, over-the-counter at-home diagnostic test for COVID-19. We are recommending this home tester developed by Australian digital diagnostics company Ellume which can be purchased at drug stores without need for a prescription. Most of all, the test results can be obtained fast with no need to send samples to a laboratory because a smartphone app can deliver the results in just 20 minutes.

The Ellume COVID-19 Home Test is an antigen test that works by using a “mid-turbinate” nasal swab to detect fragments of the coronavirus proteins. The swab is then placed in a Bluetooth-connected analyzer that transmits the results to the software app installed in the user’s smartphone.

The FDA said that the Ellume tests correctly identified 96 percent of positive samples and 100 percent of negative samples. The test uses groundbreaking core technology that combines ultra-sensitive optics, electronics and proprietary software to deliver rapid and accurate results. We will still need testing even with the availability of vaccines. This home testing kit is fast, affordable and easy to use, and will help us manage the spread of COVID-19.

While we continue to practice all safety protocols, we should all try to enjoy the Christmas holidays even during these difficult times, taking comfort in the fact that soon the lifesaving vaccines will be coming to our shores.


?Let?s not cry over spilled milk? | Philstar.com