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Comment on Covid booster jabs to be approved for sale to UK public

fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’d be fine with paying for a booster, but £100 seems a bit steep for tiny bit of liquid in a tube. What does it think it is? Printer ink?

The flu jab’s normally less than £15, depending on where you get it (and £0 if you’re old or vulnerable enough).

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SomeoneElseMod@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s the price for the US I think. It doesn’t give a price for the UK. Google tells me that flu jabs in the US cost around $70 without insurance. Like you said, flu jabs here are £10-15 for those not eligible for free ones. If the covid jabs follow the same pattern they shouldn’t be more than £20. At least I really hope that’s the case, £100 a shot will surely out-price 50%+ of people that pay for flu jabs.

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- fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You are right - I clearly missed the “in the US” bit of the paragraph!
  
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  - SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Tbf, even the full version is slightly unclear unless you read it carefully.
    
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- Hogger85@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  NHS pays Pfizer $22-27 per dose so can’t imagine it being more than £30
  
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midgephoto@photog.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
@fakeman_pretendname @merridew
None of them are £0
We buy them in bulk, and pay for most through general taxation, efficiently.
The COVID vaccines are made by actually more expensive and difficult techniques/ologies, which are available in new facilities of more limited extent.
Expect the products of those techs to become more plentiful and cheaper, and the difference may get below the order of magnitude. Not to parity.
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