Would you pay privately for a vaccine?

[Bluewavescrashing]

If so, what's your reasoning and how much would you pay?

Yes we’ve paid for Men B and Chicken Pox for my kids. Can’t remember how much think CP was much cheaper than Men B

Yes, I'd pay up to £250 a shot to get one of the mRNA vaccines that gives higher immunity and to guarantee the correct dosing schedule was followed. There won't be private vaccines available until the most vulnerable are vaccinated anyway.

Will consider encouraging older members of my family to have private vaccinations in the summer if only received 1 dose of Oxford vaccine.

Husband would. He needs to fly regularly for work and suspects a lot of countries will require proof of vaccination.

He said he'll be prepared to pay £400ish.

No because it makes it harder for me and others who would never afford it for us & our families. With all the privatisation of the NHS as it is. I hope this never ever happens. No one should get to choose whether they live or die just because you can afford it. Not in the Uk anyway

Yes I would but not at the current time due to availability.
I would view it more like a travel vaccine in the future as part of holidaying costs (like yellow fever for instance).
I suppose we’re very far away from that though.

@Kokeshi123

Only if I could be sure it was not being taken from a person who needed it more.

In Israel, when vaccines are left over, the nurses will bring in willing volunteers off the street who are happy to have the remaining vaccines rather than letting them expire. It might be worthwhile having a system where people could hang around the distributing hospitals at the end of the day "on standby" and volunteer for any doses which are left. As about 1/5 of the population are refuses, hospitals might have quite a lot of leftover vaccine on their hands.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham had to put out a message to ask residents not to turn up for unused vaccine. This happened after a Councillor, who says he was escorting a family member to hospital, received a leftover dose.

Maybe in a year or two

I would pay for all my family to have it, but only when it becomes available to do so, which won’t be for sometime.

Here is the story of the MP who was accused of queue jumping to get a vaccine and the hospital that had to ask others not to try the same approach.

www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/birmingham-mp-beat-vaccine-wait-19534128

I don't think people should be allowed to pay for vaccines. It's a world problem & the division between the haves and have nots is too great. Why would we chose to disadvantage them even more?

Sorry, chose to disadvantage the poorest even more.

No. I’m quite far up the list for eligibility anyway but won’t be getting it.

Yes, when it is available to purchase privately, which is not yet as it should be. I want the Pfizer or moderna vaccines not Oxford on the correct dosing schedule. I am willing to pay for that choice. I am not in the vulnerable groups, who of course should go first, so I am hoping that the jabs become available privately as soon as the JCVI list is completed. I doubt the NHS will give me a vaccine choice or the correct dosing schedule anymore so would prefer to pay.

I would because of my job - am a key worker but not deemed important enough to have it - literally don't fulfill any of the criteria. Means l could go to work safely.

I agree with the approach of allocating it by need, but if it were available sooner paying privately then I’d pay for it up to £1k

I don't think people should be allowed to pay for vaccines. It's a world problem & the division between the haves and have nots is too great.

Covid-19 is a disease that overwhelmingly kills the old and those with underlying diseases. Those are people who are alive precisely because they are living in rich countries. Frankly, this is why we've got a vaccine so quickly, malaria killed more people in the poorest counties last year.

Yes if being vaccinated was needed to get away abroad on a summer holiday. Wouldn’t do if it meant jumping ahead of anyone in a high priority group though.

I would, but that is because I'm ECV and terrified I'm going to leave my children without a mother, not to travel or even start mixing with people again but to know I have more chance of staying alive.

Yes, definitely, about £100 seems about right.

But I don’t think it should be available privately, all the supply and manpower involved in administering should go to the nation as a whole in order of priority, not in order of wealth.

Most definitely, yes. I’d pay up to £500 as I have parents in another country who I need to visit.

I pay every year for the flu vaccine so yes I would pay but only providing there was enough for the vulnerable groups. I think it would be wrong to be charged a huge amount and it shouldn’t be marked up too much with profit.

To clarify - I don't actually think it should be available privately until everyone who needs it has it BUT if it was and I could afford it I wouldn’t turn it down

Yes if it wasn’t going to affect supply to those who needed it and there was no chance of being given it soon. Would probably pay up to £1000 for the four of us.

Stop giving them this

Unless everyone says, yes a fiver, then you're making it seem even more acceptable to profit on our health.

To clarify I’d only pay that much for long term immunity which doesn’t seem to be guaranteed. £100 per person per year or so isn’t ridiculous for peace of mind.