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Originally Posted by Pierre
We’re not exactly “all in” on the AZ vaccine. It’s the one we’ve backed and ordered most of.
100 million.
But we also have ordered 300million further vaccines from other manufacturers.
https://www.itv.com/news/2021-02-01/...more-than-400m
So given we’ve ordered enough vaccines to immunise the nation several times over I think HMG are doing alright.
Certainly we’re not constrained to the one vaccine. |
Yes, but these would incur (significant) delays to the schedule, well into later this year and next.
As someone keen to get out of lockdown I’m sure you’d appreciate that even without elements of data, unless there was evidence that the vaccine was dangerous in it’s own right, even at lower efficacy it’d be better than doing nothing.
However that may be to reduce the R number, rather than deliver a return to normal and “herd immunity” by the middle of June as I’ve seen claimed elsewhere. If (or when) this isn’t achieved higher performing or a newer version of the vaccine will be required although I take comfort that they say this is deliverable by Autumn. We will have well developed distribution chains that it shouldn’t take too long to deliver to the requisite number of the population beyond then.