Vaccine 💉 availability for people who want to pay privately

[MissMessy12]

Once vulnerable and key workers have been vaccinated, do you think the vaccine will be available to people who want to pay privately?

No, this would be wrong on so many levels and only cause further health inequalities between the wealthy and poorer in society.
Under 50s will be vaccinated. We're just not showing on the list yet! I might be 50 by the time they get around to me mind.

No

I wish I could find a link, and I can’t - but I too have read/heard that the government do intend to vaccinate under 50’s as well. JCVI haven’t sorted out the priorities yet, there is some consideration being given to occupational groups, that’s why it stuck in my memory.

I imagine you could fly to another country and pay for it.
UAE perhaps? They are giving the Sinopharm vaccine.

Regardless of whether it will, I strongly do not think it should be. All that does is remove the poor from the queue. So instead of the vaccine being given by vulnerability priority, it will be given in priority of upper classes first.

Very much like the Titanic. They trapped/locked the lower classes below decks with metal gates and used all the lifeboats for the first class passengers.

Sick.

Should it be? No. It shouldn’t.

Would I pay? Shamefully, probably yes.

It will.probably be available privately at some point but way in the future. Not for the foreseeable.future. Not as they can't produce the stuff fast enough yet for the government phase.
Under 50s are getting it. Just bottom of the list.
I cannot imagine the government not vaccinating the bulk of the British work force just because theyre not vulnerable.

This article talks about it being everyone over 16

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55045639

Great.
Vaccinate the rich, screw the poor!

No, and neither should it be. We can't have the comfortable off queue-jumping those who are less well off or even poor.

@PuzzledObserver

I wish I could find a link, and I can’t - but I too have read/heard that the government do intend to vaccinate under 50’s as well. JCVI haven’t sorted out the priorities yet, there is some consideration being given to occupational groups, that’s why it stuck in my memory.

This is my understanding/expectations as well but timelines and priorities are still very hazy and I can't find written commitments of this (presumably while they see how we get on vaccinating over 50s).

Not this year, certainly, as it would be highly inappropriate.

But possibly in subsequent years I'm guessing that it might be the same sort of set-up as the flu vaccine, in that certain people will be eligible for a free vaccination and everyone else can also have it but will be charged for it.

I’m sure in the funding for the Oxford/AZ is a restriction on selling privately and a price cap.

Eventually I am sure there will be plentiful supplies and suppliers but not anytime soon in the UK - possibly other countries with their own vaccines may have different though.

@PlanDeRaccordement that stuff about the titanic is fiction. Happened in the film, but not IRL. There weren't enough lifeboats, but that is where it ends.

Well there aren't enough for people to be offered it anyway even if they did want to pay.

Once vulnerable people have been vaccinated free of charge I don’t see any problem with it being offered for a small fee. It’s not going to be any different to annual flu jabs where it is offered free to elderly/ vulnerable people but others have the option of paying for it. I don’t mind paying a tenner at the chemist to have my flu jab, eventually it will probably be the same for COVID

The vaccine will be made available privately. But not till the NHS roll out is well established and under way with the vaccine production running smoothly and perhaps made larger.

Everyone will be vaccinated and if people can pay privately without disrupting the NHS roll out then surely that is to everyone's benefit? Takes one more person off the NHS list and keeps one more person healthy

No. Should not be available privately Under 50s will be offered vaccine once other groups have been vaccinated, in their turn, according to need and vulnerability.

I wouldn't have thought it would be available any time soon. Im sure Oxford AZ said it was a not for profit vaccine to enable it to be used worldwide.

@Ultimatecougar

Have you read the accounts of surviving 3rd class passengers??

I imagine you could fly to another country and pay for it.

It is already possible in Russia for those who are comfortable with the Sputnik vaccine. The vaccine is available to everyone over 60, clinically vulnerable individuals and key workers but people who do not fall into these categories can get in privately "under the counter".

@MissMessy12

Once vulnerable and key workers have been vaccinated, do you think the vaccine will be available to people who want to pay privately?

Who cares, so long as people are being vaccinated?

I imagine you could fly to another country and pay for it

Italy has been mentioned in this context.

(I couldn't afford to pay for one, btw)

No, it won't be possible.

And why should teachers get priority when there are many other professions working in scenarios that put them at risk - ie. police being spat at?