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Here are the FDA instructions ... https://www.fda.gov/media/144413/download

Dosage is 0.3 ml ...

As to the "drawing-up", one of the more enjoyable classroom exercises I used to do in my health care quality class (I don't teach it anymore) involved groups being assigned an eyedropper and a Dixie bathroom cup of water. The task is to fill the dropper, then count how many drops it takes to empty it. Do that again and again, maybe five or six times by every member of every group. Students (usually a lot of nurses and radiology and pharm techs, ) are always amazed at how much variability there can be.

Having done that, their task is then to figure out ways to reduce that variability. They always do a good job with that.

 

Yea, but you draw it up with a needle and syringe with dosage marked in increments. You fill it to the appropriate line. There's no guesswork. There is and will be some degree of human error. I've administered thousands of injections. There will be errors but most people aren't that careless with them.

 

Yeah, frozen vials. Diluent is 1.8 ml of 0.9% saline, not packaged with the vaccine and sourced separately. Some dimbulb will use bacteriostatic saline sooner or later, sure as hell.

 

Right. The injections themselves are as if they're coming off an assembly line.

Sorry to keep dabbling in this. This kind of thing is fascinating to me.

 

I'm fascinated, too. I sometimes forget that medical personnel aren't robots. Not meant disrespectfully.

Of course. This administration could fuck up a one-car funeral.

 

That was my first thought. The vaccine was going to save us, so why isn't this thing running on well greased rails?

 

Some actually are delivered in a pre-loaded syringe, in some cases with the needle attached. That costs more though, and generally we used syringes and a multidose vial. The storage limits the options though, as they are trying to balance the number of doses with the most efficient frozen transport container they could design. I'm not sure if the quote above was a touch sarcastic or said straight - there will be some degree of human error, but generally medical professionals try to get such things right.

 

No, no, totally in earnest. Even stuff coming off an assembly line will exhibit variation, but that variation typically has, over time, been driven downward by a lot of thought, effort and teamwork. So too with the actual shots. And so much of all that process refinement was already in place!

 

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As written, I'd never run that. Never. No names, no attribution, no "other side," quotes that are just so.

I'd never run it. Surprised Texas Monthly did. It could be poetic apocrypha for all we know.