swcoulthurst wrote on Tue Jun 1, 2021 2:45pm:
From what I read about the orders. They are not immediate, but staged. However I think it was 40 million would complete the 500 million in mid 2022. That's why I questioned the shelf life. If that was the completion of the order then there would be available in the UK 460 million by that time. Ye...
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...t there is still only 68 million in the UK. So you would expect orders of 136 million for the first 2 doses and then lets say 2 boosters at another 136 million that equates to 272 million...why 500 million. That's another 228 million vaccines that would be made available to other countries....unless UK are going to be extremely generous and donate 228 million doses.
If that is the numbers and timeframes then the only logical answer would be that they are going to donate the balance to something like the GAVI initiative, it would be a good thing to do but I have no idea on the donation plans.
Aitch.