Had mine done at a walk in, this morning, in and out in 4 minutes.
Flu Jab. Have you had yours yet?
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I had an appointment with the GP for 8th 4 miles away, they texted to say it was delayed due to deliveries until 15th, so I had to pop in chemists 1/2 a mile away yesterday and asked if they had a cancellation, but they had missed their delivery - try on Monday.
I will take one, which ever place offers one first.
I will take one, which ever place offers one first.
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What IS your point, John?
If you want the price look it up yourself. Flu jab's £15 or so in chemists.
"Nowhere near"?? Well, 0-50 dollars, or pounds or euros, makes little difference, does it.
The point is that the covid vaccine price they're charging isn't particularly high. Companies do what they do to make a profit, not to make people better.
It's a US drug so you pay a US price. It is NOT off-label so don't be confusing it with those.
20 bucks x 2 is cheap or we wouldn't be buying it, we could use AZ.
I've recently had a course of pills which cost the NHS something over £40k. Still hoping it worked.
Fingers crossed for you that it does.
Mrs Mottie works part-time for a gastroenterologist consultant and says a three month course of tablets for Hep C can cost well over £30k. Many of the patients are from Poland and one question the consultants all ask is if they or their partners (symptoms are normally picked up during pregnancy) have had tattoos or piercings in Poland as apparently the lack of sterilisation of needles in tattoo parlours is a common cause of it over there.
Happily you're wrong. The NHS regularly negotiates much better prices than the US market gets. It's a benefit of being able to buy in bulk.
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Did you just feel you had to write something, even if it's irrelevant??? There's a word for that, begins with Capn......
We are talking about the US vaccines. Not the generality.
Of course you can do deals when it's a buyer's market, but
you can't negotiate special prices very well when the world is clamouring for supplies of a unique drug, can you
.Now there are a couple more alternatives the price may soften.
Old, from The Sun:
"Boris Johnson revealed on Monday that the UK has ordered 40 million doses of Pfizer's jab at an estimated cost of £588.4million."
Which ties up with Sky
They're all cheap.
Compare with a latest-drug course for boring old easyish-to-cure tuberculosis, "up to $12000".
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.o...-drug-remains-too-expensive-despite-new-price
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According to a study, there isn't an increase in Hepatitis C in Poland, the apparent increase is due to an increase in detection:Fingers crossed for you that it does.
Mrs Mottie works part-time for a gastroenterologist consultant and says a three month course of tablets for Hep C can cost well over £30k. Many of the patients are from Poland and one question the consultants all ask is if they or their partners (symptoms are normally picked up during pregnancy) have had tattoos or piercings in Poland as apparently the lack of sterilisation of needles in tattoo parlours is a common cause of it over there.
"Conclusions: The increase of HCV diagnosis rate, which has been reported for last three years, is probably a consequence of improved the surveillance, including mandatory reporting of positive laboratory results, but also increased availability of HCV laboratory screening. Medical exposures are still an important route of transmission of HCV in Poland."
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30111082/
From this link, it appears to show the death rate in Poland from Hepatitis C to be no worse than UK.
https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/hepatitis-c/by-country/
Are you making up what your wife tells you in an attempt to vilify Poles?
There's a word to describe that kind of behaviour.
Fingers crossed for you that it does.
Mrs Mottie works part-time for a gastroenterologist consultant and says a three month course of tablets for Hep C can cost well over £30k. Many of the patients are from Poland and one question the consultants all ask is if they or their partners (symptoms are normally picked up during pregnancy) have had tattoos or piercings in Poland as apparently the lack of sterilisation of needles in tattoo parlours is a common cause of it over there.
I heard that as well
Don’t be a **** all your life. Take a day off.
what that Mottie forces his wife out to work while he potters around the allotment?
To be fair, I do offer to scrape the frost off the windscreen for her in the colder months before she leaves for work.what that Mottie forces his wife out to work while he potters around the allotment?
what that Mottie forces his wife out to work while he potters around the allotment?
I think I heard she's got a lot more keen on going to work since mottie started hanging round the house.
She says that when I retire fully, she's going to go full time. I don’t think she’s joking either.
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So you're not making up what your wife tells you, she is really spreading untrue rumours?
I wonder where she learned that from.
