Am I being naive in thinking that most of the 50x comes from manufacturing the vaccine? In 1947 they had 650k vaccines ready to go, then got 7 pharma companies across the country to work round the clock to get them the rest. They were aiming to vaccinate 6.35 million, we are aiming to vaccinate 328 million just in the US (57x more doses needing to be manufactured). We’d expect to have more total capacity today of course but we have fewer companies doing the manufacturing.
I guess the mRNA vaccines are also more difficult to manufacture. Based on the cost the P/B is 5x more expensive than O/A viral vector. The latter is planning on producing more than twice as many in 2021 (I don’t know how the size and number of facilities compare but Pfizer are the bigger company).
Say we were giving every dose procured by the US evenly spread across the country—how many would we be doing a day in NYC?
Am I being naive in thinking that most of the 50x comes from manufacturing the vaccine? In 1947 they had 650k vaccines ready to go, then got 7 pharma companies across the country to work round the clock to get them the rest. They were aiming to vaccinate 6.35 million, we are aiming to vaccinate 328 million just in the US (57x more doses needing to be manufactured). We’d expect to have more total capacity today of course but we have fewer companies doing the manufacturing.
I guess the mRNA vaccines are also more difficult to manufacture. Based on the cost the P/B is 5x more expensive than O/A viral vector. The latter is planning on producing more than twice as many in 2021 (I don’t know how the size and number of facilities compare but Pfizer are the bigger company).
Say we were giving every dose procured by the US evenly spread across the country—how many would we be doing a day in NYC?