Re <<experts>>
I am an expert of nothing I can think of. Compared to the experts, I am not even very good at eating and drinking.
Compared to mere mortals I might be expert at afternoon-reflexology-sessions-whilst-napping, but I fear the skill is likely not very marketable.
I am guessing, and guessing gives rise to hunches, that ‘contamination in doses’ is not a positive revelation.
Looks like 1.6 million folks saved from Moderna, on many levels.
Vis the link one might also view the experts talk about ‘ WATCH: Pfizer v Oxford v Moderna – three Covid-19 vaccines compared ‘
I suppose ‘they’ mean that if one does not like all of the three, one might have 0 - 10% chance to get infected w/ a flu-esque disease, and have follow-on 0 - 2% (0 - 0.2% of overall population) probability to go where all are going, just faster, by flu or whatever. Alternatively one can accumulate enough doses and pot-luck to see what happens.
Re the contaminants, I suppose they detected such at first on ocular inspection, that be experts-look-see, which means lots of folks must have gotten contaminated by stuff they did not see. Interesting approach to QC.
bbc.com
Japan suspends 1.6 million Moderna doses over contamination fears
16 hours ago
 Reuters
Japan has suspended the use of about 1.63 million doses of the Moderna vaccine due to contamination.
The health ministry said "foreign materials" were found in some doses of a batch of roughly 560,000 vials.
Takeda Pharmaceutical, which sells and distributes the vaccine in Japan, said Moderna had put three batches on hold "out of an abundance of caution".
It said an issue at a manufacturing contract site in Spain was the likely cause, but did not elaborate.
"To date, no safety or efficacy issues have been identified," Moderna said, adding that it would work with regulators and Takeda to investigate the matter further.
There are no details of what the "foreign objects" are, but Takeda described it as particulate matter, after which it said conducted an emergency examination.
Reports of contamination also came from seven other vaccination centres, according to the Japan Times newspaper, with 39 vials - or 390 doses - found to have been affected.
The health ministry has published the batch numbers so that people who had received their shot before the suspension could check if they have got a potentially contaminated shot, Japan Times added.
Japan is battling a spike in Covid cases, with eight more prefectures placed under a state of emergency on Wednesday.
It's capital Tokyo, is currently hosting the Paralympic Games.
The country has already approved the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines for use - it only started using Moderna in May.
Just over 40% of Japanese people are fully vaccinated and around 50% have received one dose.
WATCH: Pfizer v Oxford v Moderna – three Covid-19 vaccines compared
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