Covid-19 vaccine ‘to be delivered to UK hospitals in 10 days time’

From the roll list emanating from the UK, the new Covid-19 vaccine could be given to National Health Scheme (NHS) staff in the next ten days before it is rolled out to care home residents and over_80s.

Guardian paper reported that the NHS England expects to get stocks of vaccines produced by Pfizer/BioTech on December 7,8 or 9.

Earlier in September, the joint committee on vaccination and immunization (JCVI) said that elderly people living in care homes and their staff should be vaccinated first but the new reports state that medical staff could get the vaccine first.

The report claims that the decision to vaccinate NHS staff first was determined based on the nature of the Pfizer vaccine, which cannot be safely transported to care homes and private homes.

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The Guardian report also adds that NHS officials believe that the vaccine will become unstable and ineffective if it is moved more than four times.

While using it in the hospital first means that it will have only been in transit twice from the Pfizer production plant in Belgium to storage centers in Britain, and to the hospital where it can be administered.

A senior hospital executive told the Guardian; we’ve been told to expect the vaccine on December 7 and plan to start vaccinating our staff.

“However, it’s the Pfizer vaccine we’re getting, so it can’t be moved again once it gets to us and we then have to use it within five days, as that’s its shelf life.

Initially, the plan was to do care homes first, but once the vaccines get to us it can’t be used in the community, so only NHS staff will be able to have it at least.

Another executive staff in another hospital said to Guardian; Officially the assumption is that the government will follow the JCVI’s advice.

But to practice, the NHS will vaccinate NHS staff with the Pfizer vaccine, and pretty quickly, because of its short shelf life. So it will be the NHS staff who gets it first.Covid-19