He's having to improvise as he gives shots of the fires, a biotech covered 19 vaccine.

Because supplies of the right needles and syringes air so short getting the full six doses from vials of the fires a shot requires needles that are both thin enough to minimize waste and long enough to deliver the vaccine into the recipients.

Shoulder muscle.

We need thes syringes now.

We will need them in six months.

But we also need them now because with these syringes you could get six doses per vial.

That means you can vaccinate 20% more people, and that's considerable.

His hospital and can received needles from the French public health Authority that were too short.

That forced him to hunt locally for supplies, which he was lucky enough to source from another hospital nearby.

But it raises a more pressing issue, with similar shortages cropping up elsewhere in Europe.

It's complicating an already stuttering start to vaccination efforts that followed the use relatively late approval of the fighter shot on the company's warning of near term production delays.

You are not at war, Emmanuel Macron repeated seven or eight times in March, that were a war.

No, we are not at war.

We're in a health crisis.

But at the same time, sometimes we have to use means similar to a wartime economy to cope.

We need this.

We should be able to find factories in Europe today capable of making several million of this type of syringes before the autumn.

We're not asking them to build a space shuttle in a special.

It's syringes is less complicated than making masks computing devices.

Pfizer now forecasts it will produce two billion doses this year, but this assumes it will be possible to extract the full six from each vial it charges by the dose, meaning the cost of a vial has gone up by 20%.

The European Commission is pressing fighter and biotech to deliver mawr of the low dead space needles to extract the extra does.

Industry executives say that while output of needles and syringes is sufficient to meet current demand, chaotic ordering means that they often don't get where they're most urgently needed, and work is underway to assess ways to meet future demand.