They've had months to roll this out.

The government isn't administering the vaccines, but they bankrolled the private pharmaceutical industry to study, create a vaccine, distribute and administer the vaccines.

$483 million in support available for Moderna's candidate vaccine.
$456 million in funds for Johnson & Johnson's candidate vaccine.
$1.2 billion in support for AstraZeneca's candidate vaccine.
$450 million in funds to support the large-scale manufacturing of Regeneron's COVID-19 investigational anti-viral antibody treatment, REGN-COV2.
$1.6 billion in funds to support the large-scale manufacturing of Novavax's vaccine candidate.
$1.95 billion in funds to Pfizer for the large-scale manufacturing and nationwide distribution of 100 million doses of their vaccine candidate.
$2 billion in funds to support the advanced development, including clinical trials and large scale manufacturing, of Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) investigational adjuvanted vaccine.
Approximately $1 billion in funds to support the large-scale manufacturing and delivery of Johnson & Johnson's (Janssen) investigational vaccine candidate.
The U.S. Government will own the resulting 100 million doses of vaccine, and will have the option to acquire more.
$1.5 billion in funds to support the large-scale manufacturing and delivery of Moderna's investigational vaccine candidate.
The U.S. Government will own the resulting 100 million doses of vaccine, and will have the option to acquire more.
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The #COVID19 vaccine should be free to everyone.

More from Government

This article by Jim Spellar for @LabourList misses the point about why Labour needs to think seriously about constitutional reform - and have a programme for it ready for government.


The state of our constitution is a bit like the state of the neglected electric wiring in an old house. If you are moving into the house, sorting it out is a bit tedious. Couldn’t you spend the time and money on a new sound system?

But if you ignore the wiring, you’ll find that you can’t safely install the new sound system. And your house may well catch fire.

Any programme for social democratic government requires a state with capacity, and a state that has clear mechanisms of accountability, for all the big and all the small decisions that in takes, in which people have confidence.

That is not a description of the modern UK state.

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