Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 December 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Roll-out of Covid-19 Vaccination: Discussion

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In his opening statement and his own vaccination programme, Professor MacCraith talks about the vaccine supply chain. It is very helpful. I found the graph to be very straightforward and useful. It talks about supply from manufacturer to storage, distribution and then vaccine location. What is an estimated end-to-end turnaround time for whichever vaccine comes on stream first such as, for example, the Pfizer-BioNTech one? What is the estimated end-to-end turnaround time for the 2.2 million doses to arrive, be stored and distributed and used to vaccinate people? Do we even have an estimation of how long that journey will take?

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