Oh dear. Andy Pike's thread start has got all the usual nutters out to display their total ignorance about vaccines. Very tiresome.However, for those of us, the vast majority, who have a sensible attitude to vaccines, I think it is important to note the following.The UK government, flushed with its make believe "most successful and fastest vaccine rollout myth" has backed Moderna's bivalent vaccine which is targetted at the original CV-19 and the BA.1 variant.The US and EU have held fire and backed Pfizer's bivalent vaccine, targetted on the BA.4 and BA.5 variants, which are by far the most prevalent atm.Thus the UK has been overtaken. The Pfizer vaccine is still in approval stages. Moderna has a similar one in the pipeline I would far prefer to have one of these if it becomes available in the UK this autumn. Otherwise I will make do with the older one.It is a similar story to what happened last year where the UK chose to plough its own furrough, got in a few weeks early but (a) started of preferring the inferior AZ vaccine and (b) ended up buying masses of the Pfizer vaccine but paid 3 times as much as the EU because it hadn't wanted to join in the EU purchasing scheme.
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