UK Vaccine procurement Archived Message Posted by Mary on August 14, 2020, 12:04 pm Coronavirus vaccine: UK signs deals for 90 million virus vaccine doses The UK government has signed deals for a further 90 million doses of coronavirus vaccine. The vaccines are being developed by the Belgian pharmaceutical company Janssen and the US biotech company Novavax. It means the UK has placed orders for six experimental vaccines, taking its potential stockpile to 340 million doses. In theory, there should be enough for everyone in the UK to get five doses. Most of the vaccines require only two. With most vaccine trials ending in failure, the government is effectively hedging its bets, hoping that at least one of the vaccines it has purchased proves safe and effective. The price being paid has not been revealed. How will the world vaccinate seven billion people? UK signs deals for 90 million virus vaccine doses Human trial of new coronavirus vaccine starts Kate Bingham, chair of the UK government Vaccine Taskforce, told the BBC: "We don't know if any of these vaccine formats that we've acquired will actually work. There are no licensed vaccines for any human coronavirus." She added it was a "priority" to ensure the UK has "sufficient vaccine" for groups "who are most at risk from coronavirus infection".' [..] The government has now purchased experimental coronavirus vaccines that have been developed using four different scientific approaches: Adenovirus vaccines: 100 million doses Oxford University/AstraZeneca; 30 million doses Janssen mRNA vaccines: 30 million doses BioNTech/Pfizer inactivated whole virus vaccines: 60 million doses Valneva Protein adjuvant vaccines: 60 million doses GSK/Sanofi; 60 million doses Novavax It takes Britain's potential stockpile to a total of 340 million doses - one of the biggest in the world. /.. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53772650 Message Thread: UK Vaccine procurement - Mary August 14, 2020, 12:04 pm Re: UK Vaccine procurement - Adamski August 14, 2020, 12:36 pm   Searching