"nightjar" wrote in message
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On 30/03/2021 21:20, Fredxx wrote:
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As you say transparency is lacking but this publication:
https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3226 "he UK government said that
the deals were commercially sensitive and would not say what it had paid
up front or whether it would get any money back if the vaccines did not
work."

"Has the UK pre-ordered a vaccine or drug before its approval before?
No, this is a first."..

I am surprised at that.

I'm not. That made sense with covid given that its such a killer
and ****s over hospital facilitys so comprehensively and at the
time they did that, there was no evidence that it was mutating
severely enough to be a major problem.

Seasonal flu vaccine is different every year and has to be approved anew
every year.

But covid doesnt mutate so much anything like as fast.

The vaccine has to be grown after the WHO has decided which strains are
likely to be a problem next season.

And that isnt a problem with covid.

That takes a few months, after which they have to go through the approval
process. Even allowing for the fact that there is a well-proven fast track
approval process for seasonal flu vaccine, that can't leave a lot of time
to place orders for the next flu season.

Covid is very different.