Scott3:

 

 

 

We have 60,000+ doses turning up a week, but are only dispensing 3,000 odd a week.

 

Our rapidly growing stock is in the area of 250,000 doses...

 

Some degree of stockpiling is justified:

 

• We want to ensure that 2nd doses are available for the likes of border workers and their families when they come due. (Including in the event of a supply crunch, such as the the origin country banning vaccine exports)
• We don't want to cause massive frustration where the vaccination people need to cancel heaps of appointments etc, and sit around (likely on full pay) because we have run out our stocks.

But is seems we already have heaps of vaccine in the ultra cold freezers to meet the above. As such we should be Running our vaccination program at roughly the same rate as doses come in, or even a touch faster to run down our stock to the target level.

 

Excess stock in storage, along with meaning out community isn't getting protection from it's use, also runs an (admittedly small risk) of being damaged, sabotaged, stolen etc. (freezer failure would be the most likely risk).

 

The schedule MF posted seems fine. Its starting, plus the scattered border workers aren't the same as saturating  school and mass vaccinating in one place. Border workers are scattered everywhere and they cannot all assemble in one place. Im ok with it. We aren't battling outbreaks every week here despite bringing back over 100,000 residents, we have time to play with. I hope doctors surgeries are a major front line for vaccines.