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London Grabbing Scarce Flu Vaccines To Save British Elites

May 22, 2009 (LPAC)—Two articles in the Financial Times reveal that even before the British massively pressured the WHO not to shift to Phase 6 of Alert against a highly likely return of the Spanish flu next autumn, the British elites were already grabbing vast quantities of specific anti-H1N1 vaccines to preserve their own master race.

"UK grabs limited flu vaccine stocks," wrote Andrew Jack in the Financial Times of May 15. "Fresh hope of protection against the H1N1 flu outbreak emerged on Friday when the government said it had signed a 450-million-pound contract to reserve scarce manufacturing capacity for 90 million doses of vaccine by the end of the year. The contract, which individuals close to the talks estimated to be worth about 5 pounds per dose, may spark international concerns as some richer countries negotiate with producers for privileged access to limited supplies of a pandemic vaccine."

Of course, it was British vaccine producer GlaxoSmithKline which obtained the contract to supply 60 million of the 90 million British doses. GSK said it had also sold a further 50 million doses to France; 13 million to Belgium, and 5 million to Finland. Baxter will supply the UK's remaining 30 million doses.

In reality, "the UK already agreed two years ago to pay 155 million pounds for 'advance supply agreements' which reserve manufacturing capacity for production of 132 million doses of a future pandemic vaccine sufficient to cover the entire population."

Four days later, Andrew Jack wrote another article in the FT, announcing almost triumphantly, "Access to flu vaccine 'will fall short': A third of the world's population, at best, could be provided with pandemic flu vaccine over the coming year, even if a decision is made to produce it in the next few weeks, according to estimates released on Tuesday by the WHO."

The article concludes by saying that in the U.S., Secretary for Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, "unlike a number of countries in Europe, had not yet ordered any pandemic vaccine supplies because of continuing uncertainties."


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