Europe has some of the right vaccine — but not the right needles
Getting the correct ‘shot utensils’ is proving harder than expected for Europe, who is already behind on its vaccination programme
30 January 2021 - 10:53
Paris/Berling — Laurent Fignon, a geriatric doctor in the south of France, is having to improvise as he gives shots of the Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech to care-home residents and health staff because supplies of the right needles and syringes are low.
Getting the full six doses from vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech shot — as allowed this month by the EU’s health regulator — requires needles that are both thin enough to minimise waste and long enough to deliver the jab, as required, into the recipient’s shoulder muscle...
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