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Originally Posted by jfman
Aggregated over the entire population using one reduces risk. This is a fact regardless of whether someone is exercising or not.
Depends who gets the vaccine first.
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The transmission risk is higher, compared to people breathing normally. That is why singing is banned in churches etc.
You think that countries like Poland and Romania, are going to contribute the full cost of their doses?
Even in your nonsense collective bargaining scenario, the UK would be paying over the odds compared to negotiating ourselves, as we would be paying for other countries as well.
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“We are further ahead than the EU schemes are. We would have joined the EU scheme if they had allowed us also to continue with our own negotiations, but one of the conditions of the scheme was that we would have had to stop our own negotiations and only do them through the European Commission and we weren’t prepared to do that.
“We think we will go faster this way.”
Mr Hancock confirmed the UK was already putting in contracts with vaccine developers around the world, and was engaging will all 10 of the development projects regarded as the frontrunners, including those at Oxford University and Imperial College London.
“We think that, because we are further ahead, actually the risk would have been to stop the UK procurements and instead be required to buy only through the European Commission route,” he said.
“I think it is actually better to continue with the work that we have been doing, not least, because we have got two of the top candidates here domestically, countries around the world are keen to engage
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