Why haven’t more vaccine doses been manufactured?

Because there was no certainty that it was going to be proven efficacious. The companies take a chance based on their own data that it will work but they don't want to overproduce just in case the phase 3 trials don't pan out as expected.

Pfizer will have 50 MILLION doses ready to go out by the end of this year. That seems like a lot to me.

runnER/DR wrote:

Pfizer will have 50 MILLION doses ready to go out by the end of this year. That seems like a lot to me.

These are already out of date. ;)

How much vaccine have YOU manufactured, OP?

Because it would be a terrible business decisions to go all-in on something that has not yet been prove to be mass-marketable, much less approved for sale or use. Things take time.

Too busy manufacturing fear.

Baffroom Break wrote:

Because it would be a terrible business decisions to go all-in on something that has not yet been prove to be mass-marketable, much less approved for sale or use. Things take time.

There was a very loud promise of large-scale at-risk production though. I believe part of OWS was involved in funding this production, even with the risk of the vaccine not being approved.

50 million doses is only enough for 25 million people...barely enough to cover US healthcare workers.

ER doc, address the concerns addressed by poster on this thread as stated by Robert Kennedy Jr.

Roughly 15% of U.S. citizens have tested positive for covid-19 or have stated most likely positive for covid-19 sans positive test.

Less than 1/10 of 1% of U.S. citizens have died from covid-19.

As I have stated previously, I wish more governors would ban all indoor bars, coffee shops & restaurants. I wish all indoors would wear a face mask.

Why are not you looking (25 to 50) years in the future ER doc? Medical doctors over the past 48 1/2 years have let down citizens of the world by not standing up to Big Pharma in regard to M.M.R. vaccine.[ What would have been the harm of providing little citizens six separate doses from age 2 to age 4 1/2 every six months?] We can lay today a graph of M.M.R over a graph of autism since 1972. Why are not you concerned ER doc about rushing a covid-19 vaxx? Society needs medical doctors to stand up to Big Pharma. Docs are hurting public at large by rolling over like sheep for Big Pharma.

student of economics wrote:?] We can lay today a graph of M.M.R over a graph of autism since 1972.

Autism as we know it today has always existed. What’s changed is people’s desire to see everything pathologized.

I’m a teacher, and every mildly quirky kid these days gets diagnosed with autism.

They know nobody is going to want it, except very old or very ill people. Small market.

student of economics wrote:

We can lay today a graph of M.M.R over a graph of autism since 1972. Why are not you concerned ER doc about rushing a covid-19 vaxx? Society needs medical doctors to stand up to Big Pharma. Docs are hurting public at large by rolling over like sheep for Big Pharma.

You do realize that the MMR link to autism has been refuted by like 25 studies in the past 20 years AND the person who started it was a charlatan who falsified data? I.e. why are you following someone who was more concerned with. making money than the health of patients?

moanswers wrote:

Because there was no certainty that it was going to be proven efficacious. The companies take a chance based on their own data that it will work but they don't want to overproduce just in case the phase 3 trials don't pan out as expected.

You also run into issues where the vaccine is only usable for certain periods of time. If you can only store it for 4 months, you don't want to produce stuff that will not be used before approval. There is also the whole part that setting up production lines and verifying them takes time. They might have only the point where they can really ramp up production in like Sept.

The important numbers isn't so. much how many doses they have but how many they are making per month. If they have 50 million and are making 10m/month that is a lot different than if they have 50m and are making 100m/month.....