Scouting avian influenza vaccines

A summary of the old geezers efforts to understand what the devil is going on

This is a summary post of our efforts so far to understand the circumstances of purchasing several million doses of a vaccine for a non-threat at our expense.

This post documents our efforts to understand precisely what is going on. Each post has a brief summary, so hopefully you can follow.

In the first post of the series, we are trying to understand what the UKHSA bought and its properties with the aid of regulatory documents:

The H5N1 vaccine UKHSA purchased from CSL/Sequirus LTD

Maybe we identified the wrong mystery vaccine, so we fired off six sets of questions to the UKHSA to work out what was going on.

FOI Questions for the UKHSA on WhatDoTheyKnow

Mind your own business was the first answer to how much it all costs.

One answer to our questions to the UKHSA about the bird flu vaccine

This was the first stonewall we hit, warning us that it’s all secret to ensure “fair and secure competition.” Remember this boilerplate sentence in the light of yesterday’s post. (See below).

A second question (not in the original order) was sort of answered by sending us round the garden:

A second answer to our questions to the UKHSA about the bird flu vaccine

It’s avian influenza vaccine H5N1 and H5N8, maybe H5N1 today and H5N8 tomorrow. H…