As Grandmother used to say, "If it's not one tham ding it's another"
(we knew what she was really saying)
From Agence France-Presse via ScienceAlert, November 10:
The World Health Organization warned Tuesday there could be shortfall of up to 2 billion syringes in 2022, which threatens to hamper vaccine efforts globally if production does not improve.
The shortages are the result of COVID-19 vaccine campaigns, with billions more syringes than normal being used worldwide, badly denting global supplies.
Lisa Hedman, the WHO's senior advisor on access to medicines and health products, said as the supply of COVID-19 vaccine doses increases, the supply of syringes needs to keep pace.
"We are raising the real concern that we could have a shortage of immunization syringes, which would in turn lead to serious problems, such as slowing down immunization efforts," she told reporters."Depending on how the vaccine uptake goes, it could be a deficit of anywhere from 1 billion to 2 billion."More than 7.25 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered globally, according to an AFP tally.That's nearly double the number of routine vaccinations given per year – and twice the number of syringes required....
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