πŸ’‰ NEW: UK orders 40m more doses of the Valneva Covid vaccine for next year

πŸ“Š It now has total 100m doses on order with options for 90m more doses between 2023-25

Planning for an ongoing, long term vaccination programme being stepped up

πŸ—“ Trial data due in next 3 months
πŸ’‰ πŸ‡«πŸ‡· French Minister says it will start receiving AstraZeneca vaccine from next week
πŸ“ˆ AstraZeneca is now going to deliver an additional 9m doses to the EU in the first three months of this year

πŸ“Š That should mean a total of 40m doses - and it will start deliveries a week earlier than planned

🏭 It’s also going to expand manufacturing capacity in the EU
πŸ‡«πŸ‡· NEW: French government says just 2.5m people will be vaccinated there by the end of February

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ UK could be up to around 20m first doses by then

πŸ“Š Very stark sign of the differing fortunes of the vaccination campaigns - very worrying for vaccine sceptical France

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2 Feb
πŸ’‰ NEW: One dose of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine offers 76% protection after day 22 post vaccination - and offers sustained protection through a 3 month period until second dose
New analysis by Oxford University

▢️ vaccine shows sustained protection of 76% during the 3-month interval until the second dose

▢️ analyses shows single standard dose efficacy from day 22 to day 90 post vaccination of 76% with protection not falling in this three-month period
▢️ After the second dose vaccine efficacy from two standard doses is 82.4% with the 3-month interval being used in the UK

▢️ 82.4% effective, with a 95% confidence interval of 62.7% - 91.7% at 12+ weeks
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2 Feb
πŸ’‰πŸ’Έ Stark difference between big pharma over COVID

πŸ•Š AstraZeneca & Johnson&Johnson will produce their vaccines not for profit during pandemic

πŸ’΅ Pfizer now expects $15 BILLION in revenue for its vaccine THIS YEAR

πŸ’΅ with profit margin in the high 20s % -could be $4bn profit
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Pfizer splits costs and profits with BioNTech

πŸ’‰ It’s vaccine costs about $20

πŸ’· AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine is more like $4

🌍 that vaccine will be provided to the developing world at cost in perpetuity
πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ You pays your money & you takes your choice-Pfizer vaccine uses new, cutting edge technology & they were first to get approval

It’s a private company with shareholders & its job is to make money - that’s how they fund incredibly expensive research & development
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