Jenny Hope
Mail Online
April 7, 2010
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Up to £300million of taxpayers’ money has been wasted on swine flu jabs that were never needed.
Ministers ordered 90million doses of a vaccine last year at a cost of £540million as panic over the illness gripped the country.
But as the ‘pandemic’ failed to materialise it soon became clear that the order was far too large.
The Department of Health tried to get out of the enormous contract but the drug firm, GlaxoSmithKline, refused to back down.
Yesterday the Government announced it had signed a compromise deal that caps the number of shots of Pandemrix at 34.8million – but, astonishingly, at twice the price first agreed.
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