Covid booster jabs to be approved for sale to UK public
Covid booster jabs to be approved for sale to UK public
Health officials support proposal for private provision of vaccines after age limit on NHS booster programme raised to 65
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I'd be fine with paying for a booster, but £100 seems a bit steep for tiny bit of liquid in a tube. What does it think it is? Printer ink?
The flu jab's normally less than £15, depending on where you get it (and £0 if you're old or vulnerable enough).
That’s the price for the US I think. It doesn’t give a price for the UK. Google tells me that flu jabs in the US cost around $70 without insurance. Like you said, flu jabs here are £10-15 for those not eligible for free ones. If the covid jabs follow the same pattern they shouldn’t be more than £20. At least I really hope that’s the case, £100 a shot will surely out-price 50%+ of people that pay for flu jabs.
You are right - I clearly missed the "in the US" bit of the paragraph!
[Edit] or I read the TLDR bot version, which omitted this information
Tbf, even the full version is slightly unclear unless you read it carefully.
Edit: I’m the same person you replied to, I just forgot to switch from mod account to normal account.
NHS pays Pfizer $22-27 per dose (and that is claimed to be "most expensive" price) so can't imagine it being more than £30
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None of them are £0
We buy them in bulk, and pay for most through general taxation, efficiently.The COVID vaccines are made by actually more expensive and difficult techniques/ologies, which are available in new facilities of more limited extent.
Expect the products of those techs to become more plentiful and cheaper, and the difference may get below the order of magnitude. Not to parity.