Will famous and rich try to get vaccine?

[Lockdowner13]

I really hope not. I will judge anyone that tries to skip the queue. I bet people try though.

I watched tv earlier this week and a high profile presenter offered to take it live on air “to show people it was safe”... what a waste of a dose. I’d rather a nurse or teacher had it or my vulnerable family member.

Do you think certain people will try to skip the queue?

@Brunt0n

When the supply is better I would have no problem with paying privately for a vaccine if it meant I could go back to my normal life. I’m a healthy woman in my 30s so unlikely to receive it anytime soon I imagine

Yeah, i'd happily pay 100 pound or so to get a vaccine privately early next year, rather than wait to the middle of next year.

It'd be the difference between getting out more and peace of mind (while still respecting any distancing rules) and essentially shutting myself away for half or most of another year, or whenever it is us in our 30s get offered it. Especially so if i'm expected to return to the office and busy public transport before being offered it.

I don’t think you’ll have to be rich or famous to get it.

Many people are paying over £100 to get tested (eg for travel) , if the Oxford vaccine costs £3 to make, even if you charge 10 times the cost, we’ll still be better off than paying for tests.

But as other have mentioned, I would be happy to do it once there is ample supply for everyone.

Remember back in March when tests were the holy grail and now you have countless suppliers.

I think even if you can't buy it in this country, other countries will sell it and it will become slightly easier to travel, therefore yes, the rich will pay and get it early. I do have a problem with this, but hey, it will make the queue shorter for the rest of us.

I expect rich and famous would be the last ones to even emerge from their mansions.
Until then they will watch from the safe distance for results of the experiment on the general public.

the elderly who can shield

Have you actually shielded? Do you know how utterly shit it is?

And do you realise that being elderly wasn't a shielded category: it was those - of any age including children - whose medical condition made them exceptionally vulnerable.

Please don't bang us up again. Let us have the same level of vulnerability as healthy under 60s already enjoy (ie might still get the disease, but overwhelmingly likely to have a mild case)

I am certain they will. If anyone knows how Harley Street doctors normally get their private medicines it would be very interesting to know. My guess is that there are private medicine brokers whose job is to have contacts in drug companies who will sell their clients medicines directly. But that's just a guess. What I do know is that there is normally a ready supply.

Most drugs are readily available to buy by any appropriate person/organisation, and there is no problem in securing a supply.

This brand new vaccine is simply not going to feature in those ordinary supply chains - not least because of COVAX. The manufacturers simply are not taking orders from the private supply chains. It's governments and official national suppliers, with UH/WHO/COVAX on the case too

I'll be paying for the vaccine the second it becomes available privately.

SexTrainGlue does that apply to all the vaccines that are being developed or might there be some from elsewhere in the world that are outside that agreement?

I would bet money that some rich people will get a vaccine at least in January. When will the queen be vaccinated?

I would bet money that some rich people will get a vaccine at least in January. When will the queen be vaccinated?

She's over 80, so priority 2, so probably quite soon. Maybe a hospital with a hub has something that need unveiling, so she can kill two birds with one stone?

Info on COVAX:

www.who.int/news/item/24-08-2020-172-countries-and-multiple-candidate-vaccines-engaged-in-covid-19-vaccine-global-access-facility

172 countries in, to a greater or lesser extent, and 9 candidate vaccines and a further 9 possibles definitely in

Notable exceptions are the Pfizer vaccine (unless it's been added since this list) and both Russia and China

I think the vaccines which require ultra cold handling are quite unlikely to be bought up by private supply chains.

I think the vaccines which require ultra cold handling are quite unlikely to be bought up by private supply chains.

Why do you say that? The private hospitals of London can certainly afford ultra cold storage.

It's not just being able to afford the headline cost, it's the sheer embuggeration of doing it properly and whereas there might be some places in London that could reliably expect to vaccinate about 200 people per day (to make it worth defrosting one batch) I'm really not sure if it's a truly sustainable business model. Especially as all vulnerable and all over 50s will probably have had it on NHS by the time the manufacturers can fulfill private orders (after all the national ones they already have)

Oxford vaccine is much more straightforward logistically, but is definitely in COVAX - a thoroughly good decision I think

@notevenat20

I would bet money that some rich people will get a vaccine at least in January. When will the queen be vaccinated?

Where would they get it? Do you mean the current pfizer one? Have you heard that they are selling it to private companies?

Obviously that could happen but I'd be very surprised if it did for quite some time