The pharmaceutical company Pfizer, which is joining forces with the German company BioNtech in one of the first vacancies against the covid-19 authorities in Europe, now considers that each vial contains six doses, up to five years ago, a controversial decision.
How many doses?
Do you have a little, each bottle of the “Comirnaty” vacancy from Pfizer / BioNtech officially contains five doses. The recommended solution should be diluted with 1.8 ml of injectable soda solution.
“Después de la dilution, the phrase contains 2.25 ml”, afirman los laboratorios. Thus, a dose of 0.3 ml per dose, theoretically possible to extract 7 doses.
The medical staff says that the podium – and specific conditions– receive at least one sixth dose in each bottle.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has updated the European label on January 8 to indicate that vials contain six doses.
This authorization is valid for the Member States of the EU. The FDA, the state drug treatment agency, has also approved the use of this sixth dose, said Pfizer.
Without embarrassment, the EMA says that the sixth dose “depends on the availability of specific jingles”.
What does Pfizer say?
“Our initial target of 1,300 million vaccine doses has been revised to bring 2,000 million dose doses to 2021 finals,” the pharmaceutical company said.
These forecasts are based on the update of the label – from five to six doses per vial – but also in “the continuous continuation of the production processes and the amplification of our current installations”.
The subgroup submits its submission compromises “in compliance with the claims it has” and that “these are always based on a total dose and no number”.
Specifically, This means that Pfizer / BioNtech will integrate less vials into its customers at the same price.
The sixth dose is not guaranteed
It is embarrassing to carry six doses and no five is always guaranteed because a single ring with a very “dead space” is needed (less than 35 microliters).
The “dead space” is the volume that is in the ring when the emblem is completely pressed. The ideal is to use a ring in which the water is not dismantled.
Without embarrassment, the medical staff is not equipped to stand by this type of ringing.
The state group Becton Dickinson, the mayor’s global producer of jeringuillas, has indicated that specialty products are being treated that demand “is traditionally minimal”.
In a message sent to AFP, a spokesman for the company, Troy Kirkpatrick, explained that “these products have a limited production capacity and long-term delivery”.
“The sixth dose requires a team adequate to extract it systematically. Not all centers have received this type of water and jingles, and the result is extremely difficult to achieve this sixth dose! Clarisse Audigier Valette, pneumoonologist and head of the covid-19 unit at the Toulon Hospital Center (in France), was alerted on Twitter.
Under these conditions, if Pfizer enters the viola of the initials, “we will evacuate the people of the front”, the French medical team of the Côte de la Science will be evacuated.
Governors in guard
In Belgium, Pfizer’s decision has caused controversy. In mid-January, senior residents’ residences that hope to accelerate the graceful vacancy rate in this sixth dose will be privately held for the occasionally promised vial, giving AFP a residency charge.
The Swedish Public Health Authority has issued a statement stating that Sweden has not complied with its payments to Pfizer, as a Swedish periodical.
“We hope to obtain a declaration from the European Commission before we pay [a Pfizer/Biotech]. If not, we tend to work with the laboratory “, said Anders Tegnell, of the Swedish Public Health Agency.
También also indicates that the place of payment does not have a window inside “unas semanas”.
In France, the Ministry of Health assured that it had issued “summit statements to dispose of new types of jingles”, and elaborate sheets to familiarize the sanitary professionals with “the very particular technical gesture” that is required.
By virtue of the European Commission, a body framed by sanitary issues says that the commission has “been conducting a public procurement procedure common” and “has agreed to mark” that “allows the Member States to purchase the material jeringuillas y agujas adaptadas.