{"id":5190,"date":"2024-03-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5190"},"modified":"2024-03-29T00:45:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T04:45:20","slug":"cost-of-private-covid-jabs-risks-widening-health-inequalities-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/cost-of-private-covid-jabs-risks-widening-health-inequalities-experts-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of private Covid jabs risks widening health inequalities, experts warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts and patient groups have warned that the high cost of private Covid vaccinations could exacerbate health inequalities and leave those more at risk from the virus without a vital line of defence.<\/p>\n<p>Both high street chain Boots and pharmacies that partner with the company Pharmadoctor are now offering Covid jabs to those not eligible for a free vaccination through the NHS, with the former charging almost \u00a3100 for the Pfizer\/BioNTech jab.<\/p>\n<p>While Pharmadoctor says each pharmacy sets its own prices, it suggests the Pfizer\/BioNTech jab will set customers back \u00a375-\u00a385, while the latest Novavax jab will cost about \u00a345-\u00a355.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts and patient groups have warned that the high cost of private Covid vaccinations could exacerbate health inequalities and leave those more at risk from the virus without a vital line of defence.<\/p>\n<p>Both high street chain Boots and pharmacies that partner with the company Pharmadoctor are now offering Covid jabs to those not eligible for a free vaccination through the NHS, with the former charging almost \u00a3100 for the Pfizer\/BioNTech jab.<\/p>\n<p>While Pharmadoctor says each pharmacy sets its own prices, it suggests the Pfizer\/BioNTech jab will set customers back \u00a375-\u00a385, while the latest Novavax jab will cost about \u00a345-\u00a355.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/cost-of-private-covid-jabs-risks-widening-health-inequalities-experts-warn\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cost of private Covid jabs risks widening health inequalities, experts warn<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,999,259,11,593,14,50,320,15],"class_list":["post-5190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-health-inequalities","tag-human-rights","tag-long-covid","tag-mrna-vaccines","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-kingdom","tag-vaccination","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5194,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions\/5194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}