The benefits seemed marginal based on my amateur understanding of the improvement it made.
But, I would point out that most countries will do the same in terms of trying to help their own people first if they find a treatment or vaccine, the French tried doing the same with a vaccine Sanofi is working on when the company said it would give the US the first load of the vaccine they were working on because the US had funded the research, and even with the Oxford vaccine the UK is getting 30 million of the first 100 million doses - yes that still leaves 70 million for somewhere else but 70 million isn’t a lot in a world with 7 billion people.
Yeah it wasn't exactly a game changer, and then Gilead increased the price of a course of treatment from $20 to over $2k, and now over $3k today, I doubt the NHS would have been clammering for it with that kind of cost/benefit ratio.
Just a question on the vaccines, if one is available by the end of this year would you guys chose to have it? Don’t get me wrong I’m no anti-vaxer, I have a 1 year old and a 3 year old and they are fully vaccinated so I am completely comfortable with vaccines but am I the only one in two minds due to speed they will have been developed for Covid-19 and that they could be longer term affects of a vaccine that don’t become apparent until later on?
I would, if the data from the Phase 3 trial looks ok, I volunteered for the Oxford vaccine candidate but never heard back from them, probably after more front line healthcare staff who will have more exposure for testing efficacy.
Any common side effects are going to get picked up in trials anyway, the uncommon ones are less risk than getting the virus and risking low chance of death or a higher chance of being debilitated for longer.