Military planes to fly Covid vaccines in to Britain to avoid ports hit by Brexit

[Joe_K]

Originally Posted by Asturias56

"if as reports suggest 8000 B747 size aircraft are needed to distribute the vaccine"

I've never seen the assumptions behind that figure

This is from an IATA press release: https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/pr/2020-09-09-01/

"Just providing a single dose to 7.8 billion people would fill 8,000 747 cargo aircraft."