Distributing the COVID Vaccine: The Greatest Logistics Challenge Ever
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References:
[1] www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7045880/
[2] coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
[3] blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/understanding-depth-2020-global-recession-5-charts
[4] www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-25/the-supply-chain-to-save-the-world-is-unprepared-for-a-vaccine
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[8] www.marketwatch.com/story/moderna-and-pfizers-covid-19-vaccine-candidates-require-ultra-low-temperatures-raising-questions-about-storage-distribution-2020-08-27
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Just got my first dose today. Let’s go
I will shoot anyone who tries to jab me.
Who's here after the johnson and johnson vaccine that can stay effective at higher temperatures than the pfizer and modrna vaccines
I bet WWII had a few more logistical challenges.
Why do you think only USA can make a vaccine?😭😂👌
Amazing grace for people able receiving Pizer-BioNTech vaccine...People living in poor countries never able to receive such vaccine because lack of developed infrastructure networks, logistic and cooling facilites. Thanks for this video telling people for how much luck and appreciation when receiving dose of Pizer-BioNTech vaccine.
Boooooo
Ugh.
Why not store the vaccines in supermarkets as they have refrigerators?
Can't get nearly as cold as a freezer. Even the moderna vaccine needs to be kept in a freezer colder than the average home freezer, and far colder than a supermarket ones. They are also not very sanitary. And the Pfizer vaccine requires a specialized freezer.
incredible that just four months later, i, an average person in a relatively small city have already received the pfizer vaccine. my family in a big city in california got the moderna vaccine. ngl, i’m pretty impressed with the distribution thus far.
How do they make the vaccine? Where the raw materials come from?
Just got the Pfizer vaccine. Thank you Science and Logistics!
Enjoy total organ failure in 5 years.
Damn it’s only been 4 months and we hit a crazy new peak and have had a rapid drop and over a hundred million vaccines go out
Meanwhile my country is stuck with the bootleg chinese sinovac vaccine
Not me watching this as I just got my second vaccine an HOUR ago
Watching this in 2021 be like: hm...this is way too accurate
And guess what we weren’t doing in the 4 months since this vid was posted?
I had my first dose of the Oxford vaccine on the 14th
WHAT HAPPENED ABOUT JOHNSON & JOHNSON COVID-19 VACCINE? IT WAS READY AT THE SAME TIME OF PFIZER VACCINE.
No it wasn't -- it just got approved a few days ago.
Just subbed, great video
Yes. This video is very topical right now.
this video was very informative.. thanksss :))
Wealthy country 1st is happening ,only india among poor country is getting vaccinated .😭😭😭
Human diligence is breathtaking
Ha “the end is near” tell that to the new strain that the vaccine doesn’t affect
@BurntToast7 bro I was talking about when a new strain comes out with resitance and it was also a joke
It does affect it. The Oxford vaccine doesn't stop minor cases of it, but otherwise, it is completely stopped by the vaccine. Some new strains may come that cause small reactions in vaccinated people, but vaccines will continue to stop serious cases.
What about a "Med ship" that can carry alot of meds to ship them down to africa or we culd apply this to crouse ships, i have no idea if there still is any going to Africa
Why can't they just share the chemical formulae with international governments and have them order their own local parmacy manufacturers to produce the same salts under similar conditions ? The national research institutes could even improve upon the formulae w.r.t temp and pressure requirements and could even improve the shelf life of the vaccine. What's wrong in that ?
In the future, companies would stop being incentivized to make these critical vaccines.
getting people to wear a mask is even a bigger challenge
Really glad the whole process got fast tracked so well and so effectively! This really is one of the fastest developed vaccines in history. Thank you Trump, very cool.
Nice video but a little bummed that you didn't go into estimating possible timelines into when enough people might be vaccinated in major countries.
People's : Hey 2020 you have killed a lot of peoples now look you are gonna die hahahaha. 2020 : Looks like you humans are enjoying, Have this new Coronavirus as a gift for 2021.
Mr Sam, here are some video ideas: Logistics of the Indian Election Logistics of Mumbai Dabbawalas India's Covid Vaccine distribution plan Why Samsung is shifting manufacturing from China to India
@Angus Noble Just a person Interested In India.
Are you Indian by any chance?
Hey just a little hope my dad, a health care work, got his covid vaccine in 2020
As many cruxes you care to highlight, there is too many whoopsie doodles given in this video.
Hoping to just get one in 2021. My immune system is not so reliable from another virus pandemic.
guys the antivaxxers problem is about to solve itself if the vaccine ever comes
Take ALL your shots, smartie-pants.
SMORT
Where dippin dots
Watching this a day after receiving the Pfizer COVID vaccine.
Republicans on February: Hoax! Republicans on March: Hoax! Republicans on April: Hoax! Republicans on May: Hoax! Republicans on July: Hoax! Republicans on June: Hoax! Republicans on August: Hoax! Republicans on September: Hoax! Republicans on October: Hoax! Republicans on November: Hoax! Republicans on December: Vaccine? Me first!
This is aging well
Me, being an idiot and watching a video about vaccines that are most often distributed through syringes Me, also having a very severe phobia of syringes This was a terrible idea.
This video was made possible by *COVID-19*
The thing about vaccines is that a temperature requirement isn't the norm, in fact, it's worrying. Vaccines take years to develop and usually have side-effects that won't appear till years later. The vaccines will likely kill thousands.
Christ mate, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Even if that were true, the disease is killing millions world wide. If we could cut that back to mere thousands, it would be a drastic improvement.
Actually they almost never have side effects that appear years later. That's not really a problem with them.
because the soo called eleets caused this to vacinate people. disception and bio warfare and then posion people
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If there is enough supply and the bottleneck is distribution/logistics, why not ship out a massive shipment of vaccine to areas that have a cold chain and stage a large scale vaccinating station there and have people come to that place instead?
why are 5 billion getting the vaccine? what going on with the other 2 billion?
IDK KILL THEM
tw // don’t watch if you have a phobia of needles
well as you can see your wrong like on most topics... you all just don't know enough about the topic .. Good Try
12:54 One can only "let their guard down" once everyone collectively decides to stop being idiots, and given their history, that is not something I'll ever hold my breath for
Sell it on Amazon , Jeff B will handle the logistic.
It’s just cringy how he talks about the vaccine as if it’s the most sacred thing ever created that will save lives. Brother, no one should ever be forced to put something in their bodies if they don’t want to, but that’s where we’re headed. Covid is real, Social Conditioning is also real.
How about quarantine yourselves and don't need a vaccine lmao
Show this to Pete Buttigieg
It isnt pfizers vaccine. It is BioNTechs vaccine..
@Arty Thats not quite right aswell. Pfizer only funded them partly. Pfizer also produces it.
They both made it together 🤨
"The stakes have never been higher, the challenge has never been greater"? Um, what about smallpox? The other standard childhood diseases that used to (as a group) carry off some absurdly high number of the world's children? You're scaremongering here. Totally irrational.
The point where we stop having an epidemic, is the point where the R-value of Covid drops below 1. (i.e., the average Covid carrier transmits the virus to one person or less.) Happily, this means that between people who have developed immunity to Covid and the people who really want the vaccine, we may be able to get out of epidemic status without forcing anyone who doesn't want to, to take it.
there is a strong chance I will not be injected at any point ever
Send the invoice to China?
Depending on how many doses and different types of vaccines, and about 8 billion people on the planet ..... TEN billion needles will end up in the ocean ..... fishes will swallow pieces of needles and glass ..... people will buy fish at the supermarkets months from now ..... they will swallow the pieces of glass and needles
Thank you Presudent Trump for this Unpresidented COVID 19 VACCINES TO BE AVAILABLE FOR ALL AMERICANS. THANK YOU for creating WARP SPEED THAT MADE THIS A VICTORY TO ALL AND TO YOUR ADMINISRATION.
I cant wait to see videos and pictures of people one purpose or accidentally destroying doses smh
I love the footage of Salt Lake City @9:26
Make an updated video with all the new information!
I found out I have COVID
Who is here after the FDA gave EUA to Pfizer’s vaccine?
Here when we now have the vaccine
Me : young, relatively healthy person living in a third world country. I'll probably get the vaccine when the next pandemic breaks out
Annnnd im vaccinated already:DDDD
Nice
People are stupid enough to not question how much profit will be made from this.
Two points. First you did not explore the option of military aid, I would suspect that military infrastructure like big cargoplanes could be used and that countries would like to utilize them. Especially since military is better equipped to drop in areas with lesser quality infrastructure. Second I don't think the prevented deaths wil be remembered. People never remember the possible death count. Otherwise antivaxxers wouldn't be a thing if the devastating effects of polio and others where still in the public consciousness
00:43 that's the french/german border where the tramway crosses and I literally live just there after the bridge, first time I see it on a video 🤪
Wealthier countries need them first. We have a much older demographic population then them, more cases and issues from the pandemic then a lot of the places in Africa
We should prioritize those who need the vaccine first.
Easy to say, difficult to get those in charge to listen.
Must be kept cold or else it will be unstable. It's not injected into you cold obviously. So....
Only the BionTech/Pfizer vaccine needs special refrigeration equipment. The Moderna and Oxford vaccine are easier to store.
Imagine if the scalpers got to these...
People- This is the greatest global challenge of this generation The climate crisis- This is the greatest global challenge of this generation SO FAR
oh, goody, finally the sheeple get their free doses of purple Kool-Aid, and then the evil people get their reward in hell, oh, goody! Moderna is IG Farben, makers of the cyanide for Hitler's camps.
IMPORTANT Daily reminder that ALL #CovidVaccine are still in early stages of clinical trials despite being licensed by Gov. For those taking the vaccine next week, at least be informed about the risks of vaccine injury I would like to point out who cares you cant Believe everything you hear and see . Do we really know that there getting the vaccine its done in Front of a camera it could be vitamin c . And not the vaccine. It's all politics they all have an agenda. Better to wait a year I would like to point out who cares you cant Believe everything you hear, read ,see nobody know if the vaccine is safe. Everyone is just assuming using the public lap rats. I will sit back and see what happens after a year and just observe everything and do my research
while i agree that it can be bad yet the risks of covid for an old person is worse than the risks of the vaccine harming a person. I would not personally get one bc the risks of covid would not effect me as much as the effects of the vaccine
You need a update video now
This is literally happening right now lol
Thinking of taking a vaccine think again! While the reasons for a desire to bring a Covid-19 vaccine to market as quickly as possible are all too clear, great care must be taken to ensure that the vaccines are safe (Report, August 31). It is 65 years since a “wonder drug” as a palliative to morning sickness in pregnant women was brought to the market, first in Germany where Grünenthal manufactured Contergan, and then in the UK where it was known principally as Thalidomide. The drug was not properly tested in Germany, and was not tested at all in the UK. Just look at the horrendous results - many thousands of teratogenic foetuses and live births. Lives and families were destroyed. Only the insistence of the late Dr Frances Kelsey at the US Food and Drug Administration that there had to be evidence of the safety of Thalidomide before approving it for sale prevented a catastrophe in that country. A disaster must not be born out of a mad rush for a Covid vaccine.
@Si Manda let’s look at other vaccines that use the same technology: no long term effects there + couple month long trials + animal trials + simulations show no long term symptoms. It’s therefore likely it doesn’t have any, other than not getting COVID of course
@Sam Burnes Nobody knows the long term effects of the vaccine, and there lies the problem!
@Si Manda thousands of people have already been given the vaccine and there have been non serious reactions linked to it. We also know the structure of the vaccine and see that it’s unlikely to cause harm to our cells. With both of those we can conclude it’s safe. Unlike the virus which, while it mostly kills those over 70, still does kill tens of thousands younger than that. And it makes people sick of all ages. Younger people are more likely to be asymptomatic, but most people experience symptoms, and another portion of the younger population experienced long-term effects.
@Sam Burnes COVID 19 will make you ill if you are over 80 and have health problems the miracle vaccination is the unknown due to rushing the testing!
@Si Manda a sore arm, some chills and a couple other minor symptoms seem to be fairly common. Much more mundane and less dangerous than the coronavirus. In the clinical trials there was no evidence of widespread major adverse reactions, so they likely are extremely rare or nonexistent. Making taking the vaccine less dangerous than risking COVID.
give it to the goverment first let us watch and them taking it before we take it
Why not have people come to the vaccine instead of the vaccine going to them? E.g. create a "Vaccine hub" in Rochester, NY and have all of the people from the surrounding towns come to Rochester instead of shipping the vaccine to the hundreds of little towns in upstate NY?
Can we have an update? Astra Zeneca seems really interesting.
@Zx Sf Oops, sorry I was too lazy and I looked through the first 5 or so articles with nothing about Zeneca.
@zues121510 Nope, in AstraZeneca trials too, google better
@Zx Sf Oh I just googled it and it's the Chinese one
@Zx Sf Is this about zeneca? Wow I didn't know. I heard that in trials of similar size in the UK, nobody was hospitalised unlike Pfizer and Moderna because they're using a virus that doesn't affect humans to distribute spike proteins.
2 ppl dead from 5000 on trials in Brazil (they claim that those were placebo & suicide) but no reports are available + Brazil is corrupt & officials can be bought & publish fake reports.
If chinese did not eat any wild life we dont have like this now
0:20 Me who just emerged from my room the first time in 2 years: what the hell happened to everyone?
I believe the demand will be over inflated like the death rate of the virus. Only those 70-100 may or may not wish for the vaccine while parents with young children with 0 chance of covid death will refuse as long term effects are unknown and could possibly be a death shot.
@Sam Burnes SO THATS WHATS ITS REALLY ABOUT. THE OLD LAWMAKERS WORRIED ITS THIER TIME NOW AND MAKE THE WORLD SUFFER FOR THEIR LIFE EXTENSIONS. Its was just the flu and there was never a pandemic, Just a PLANdemic. Thanks for your total enlightenment.
Definitely not a 0% chance, and taken as a population there will be many people who will die. And for those parents or children, taking the vaccine could prevent them from killing older people or people with compromised immune systems.
The slow decline of dreadfulness 🤦♀️
TOP video, excellent research! Watching this 2 months later and it is incredibly accurate!
Why can't increase the number of manufacturing plants around the world?
#thankmas
WW1: I’d like to set off a 500 thousand shells/ day Government: no problem WW2: I’d like to set off a million bombs/day Government: no problem 2020: I’d like to distribute vaccine to the population Government: the most complex logistics issue to date
maybe they could wait a little and use ships
Go oxford AstraZeneca
More than anyone, America has excelled at systems and solutions. We quickly got the polio vaccine out, then later the Sabin improved vaccine. In WW2, our systems and production were, along with the Soviets, the envy of the world. Our food distribution system is our greatest asset. So, yes, I'm sure we can tackle this problem too and better than anyone...
i really dont care about the distribution process even if im back at the line maybe because i long have thought of covid as just a regular flu and i dont share the same sentiment of people of being too scared, Just because something is new you should be really scared. Mortality is low so lets not all be too paranoid eh?
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"If yo are a healthy, relatively young person thinking selfishly, you should care tremendously about the distribution process, because you are at the back of the line" You hurt my feelings, Wendover.
From being completely out of stock everywhere globally, to having much more stock than needed, we were able to distribute face masks throughout the world in a matter of two to three months. I understand that vaccines are different, but with the correct approach everything is possible in due time.
Fuck yea venlo