Would you pay for an early vaccination?

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Just that really - if a vaccine is developed and proven to be safe, would you be prepared to pay to get one early?

If not, and it is rolled out to the public, in which order do you think people will be given it?

I would pay if it meant I could travel again

Pay to jump the queue? So there aren’t sufficient supplies for frontline workers? No

I can afford to pay for one, but IMO that would be morally wrong. We all pay tax. Richer people shouldn't go to the front of the queue to be vaccinated against a killer disease that picks off the vulnerable and the ill. That is so, so wrong.

Vaccinations should start with the front line NHS and elderly and vulnerable, care homes and so on, eventually filtering down to those least at risk. Everyone should get it for free.

Yes I would in practice but I think ethics would win for me in that situation. I have previously paid for vaccinations that aren’t offered for free (chicken pox for example) but it would be morally wrong I feel for Covid. Vulnerable first.

I would if it didn't mean that there were sufficient vaccines for those that really need them.

Or should that be weren't? Total baby brain this morning.

Would not going private with the vaccination mean someone else got it for free more quickly? If not then I would pay to have it done privately. If my paid for one deprived my husband of his (NHS frontline) then I would wait.

It'll go to frontline staff first.

As it will only have been tested on young, healthy people, the vulnerable and elderly might have to wait until there is more observational info from the general population, and may further trials on the elder.ly

Those already pregnant might be last

They'll need it in prisons pretty soon

So anyone called for jury service, and rrgistrars of births marriages and deaths (weddings currently not happening, but quite important to get the basic legal ceremonies and CPs up and running again even if parties have to wait)

"Would not going private with the vaccination mean someone else got it for free more quickly?"

Surely the opposite? Vaccine sold privately depletes the stock available for NHS. There isn't going to be enough tomgomround for months, so every private shot reduces the amount for the national programme

I would be back if the queue for being vaccinated but I'm equally happy to go out prior to having a vaccination.

A decision about paying for one privately for me would depend on whether I am allowed out properly prior to having one and whether and how private vaccine availability impacts availability to the most vulnerable.

Once the most vulnerable have been vaccinated and we've moved on to a more general roll out, yes, would consider it.

Interesting one.

Ethically and Morally im a huge fan of the nhs and of equality for all. However, I have previous paid for private MRI scan, dentistry and osteopathy in the interests of skipping waiting lists.

I’m in the high risk category (the one below extremely vulnerable) and a frontline worker, currently wfh. I suspect I would be near the front of the queue for vaccines anyway but if I was told the wait was a year+ ... I would pay privately to get my life back, get back to work and see family.

Yes, I would. I have a condition that makes me vulnerable, but it's stable and so I wouldn't be on the NHS radar for it. I'll be at the back of the queue for the vaccine. I don't qualify for a free flu jab but am more than happy to pay for it each year, so I will for the COVID-19 vaccine too.

I would expect given it’ll be scarce, politically very significant and in huge international demand that the government will control all the supplies. I would be amazed if you’d be able to get it privately, at least at first. I hope it’ll be allocated first to key workers, then everyone else according to the science- both who is at most risk but also who the vaccine actually works in. Sometimes vaccines don’t work as well in the elderly.

Yes of course. I am pretty sure the vulnerable will have the same option as me of getting the vaccine privately, so not sure how that would disadvantage anybody.

Yes, but DH is shielded. I assume he would be high up the list anyway.

'would you be prepared to pay to get one early?"
What do you mean by early? Earlier than other people? I would not pay to receive a vaccine earlier than others who are more at risk than I am.

I think it should be given in order something like:

1. All HCP including cleaners and porters, staff in care homes and staff at companies who provide home care.
2. Farmers.
3. Delivery drivers involved in supply and distribution of food and medicine.
4. Supermarket staff.
5. Bus and taxi drivers.
6. Refuse Collectors.
7. Politicians and royal family.
8. Everyone in the shielding group who it is practical to give it to.
9. Everyone aged over 65.

10. Everyone in the next vulnerable group down not covered by points 8 and 9. 11. Teachers and nursery staff, registered childminders, nannies. 12. Everyone in a public facing role not covered by the above points. 13. Everyone not covered in the points above.

I'm worried now that that I've left out an important section of society and am about to be piled upon.

Yes. I really hope it will be freely available for everyone soon, but realistically for anyone with an underlying health condition like myself, it's the the only way we will be able to resume anything even closely approaching our normal lives.

firstmentat, it would create disadvantage because not everyone could afford it.

It's in the public's interest to have herd immunity, so like flu vaccines, i think they're probably will be a private options available.

The vaccine won't be suitable protection for the over 65's and some vulnerable groups, so the more people that get vaccinated, the better their chances of survival are. If that means outside of the NHS, then that still good for all of us.

No, but I'd pay more tax to ensure that those most in need were prioritised and that access to wealth did not mean faster access to a vaccine.

It has to be distributed on basis of need rather than ability pay. If people are able to access it faster because they are able to pay for it then we should give up now, as wouldn't bloody deserve saving.

*ability to pay

Not until frontline staff and the vulnerable had the opportunity first. I'm low risk so I'm happy to continue on without it for a while. If I needed one to travel abroad then I'd get it at some point.

There are so many people who are convinced that expedited = unsafe that those of us who do want the vaccine hopefully won't have to wait too long for it anyway!

It will take a long time to vaccinate all 70 million people.

If my local pharmacy were doing it and charging then yes I would be happy to go there and pay for it. I dont think they would have it if there was a shortage.