Young people aged 18-34 have started receiving the Johnson and Johnson vaccine in pharmacies nationwide.
There's been a massive demand for the one-shot injection since the Government announced it would be available from today.
We are delighted to be providing this service! However, there is currently a limited supply of this vaccine available in pharmacies. We appreciate your patience as we await supplies of vaccines and will do our best to facilitate everyone as soon as possible#ThinkPharmacy pic.twitter.com/lYvGsh3he2
— Irish Pharmacy Union (@IrishPharmacy) July 5, 2021
Huge Demand For One Shot Vaccine
29-year-olds Audrey and David were first in line to receive the Johnson and Johnson vaccine here at Poplar Pharmacy in Naas.
There's a huge demand for this one-shot vaccine.
This pharmacy has 600 people on the waiting list but only enough jabs for 50 people this week.
Pharmacist Joan Kilgallen says the phone hasn’t stopped ringing.
"Inundated!"
"For all of the calls we've had today, we're taking names and numbers as we speak."
Great to meet Johnson & Johnson (Jansen Scientific) today to talk about #vaccines, their footprint in #Ireland, working together on #jobs & #innovation 💉👩🔬🔬🧪@SimonHarris pic.twitter.com/JGOfEbLNnC
— Leo Varadkar (@LeoVaradkar) July 5, 2021
There Are Limited Supplies Available
Joan says they could give so many more vaccines if they know what supplies were coming in.
"I cannot find any information either from the IPU or from the HSE about supply."
"To be honest it's a little bit frustrating at this point."
Relief For Jabbed 29 Year Olds
Young people were originally meant to only get an MRNA vaccine.
However, now they can sign up for the Johnson & Johnson one if they’re comfortable with it.
For Audrey and Dave, they didn’t care what vaccine they got, as long as they got one.
"Yeah I'm relieved to get it now, I'll hopefully get back to traveling soon and get back to normal," he says.
Audrey says, "It was quick and handy, it's great to have it done and over with."
"It's given me peace of mind."
VACCINE UPDATE
By tomorrow, >50% of our adult population will be fully vaccinated
~4.4M doses administered to date
>343k doses administered in the past week
>55k doses administered on each of 4 days
>103k AZ dose 2s administered last week
Janssen for 18-34s starts today— Brian MacCraith (@muirtheimhne) July 5, 2021
By tomorrow half of the adult population should be fully vaccinated.
