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Old 08-01-2021, 13:43   #2681
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
The Moderna jab is a useful backup and will certainly help speed up our vaccination programme still further, however HMG's strategy of substantially backing Oxford-AstraZeneca, with a secondary punt on a novel mRNA vaccine from a company with a track record, has proven to have been correct.

I'm still waiting to hear contrition from all those who said it was a bad thing that we didn't join the EU procurement programme.
The argument I've heard against the UK going it alone is that we've paid far more per dose - I think £400m in total. I appreciate that's peanuts in the whole Coronavirus spend but if going directly doesn't provide the same vaccinations quicker, then that's £400m we spent unnecessarily.
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