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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    floralies said:
    Can anyone tell me why you can't buy a Covid booster in the UK if you are not in an eligible group and it's more than six months since your last one? Why are they not available to buy privately?

    From the little I can find out online the price of the vaccine would be around the £100 mark, so probably a very limited market.
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    And you've still got to find someone capable of injecting you in the correct place. That could cost you as much again!!
    Or more.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    So a rich 50 year old could have the vaccine, but not a poor 50 year old.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    If we don't keep the rich alive, how on earth is the wealth going to trickle down to the poor? We'd all be doomed.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    punkdoc said:
    So a rich 50 year old could have the vaccine, but not a poor 50 year old.
    I seem to remember Johnson saying similar right at the start,  there will be no private access.  It would have been a shambles at the time.
     It would have been like the ‘30’s depression,  the rich would buy it all.  Would have been chaos. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • LunarSeaLunarSea Posts: 1,923
    floralies said:
    Can anyone tell me why you can't buy a Covid booster in the UK if you are not in an eligible group and it's more than six months since your last one? Why are they not available to buy privately?

    All set to change next year, assuming the government don't have a rethink around eligibility.

    Covid jab could be available privately from 2024 - BBC News

    Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. 

    I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Oh that’s all right then … as long as the rich important people are going to be saved .., phew!  No need to worry … they be fit and well enough and able to look after the sick, frail and vulnerable of the world won’t they …… 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    I thought that I had read that it may be available to buy next year. It just doesn't make sense to me.
  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478
    Surely no difference to paying to have a flu jab ? If you don’t qualify under the NHS 
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Yes, no difference, but not fair.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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