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    The Covid-19 vaccine gamble: where bets have been placed and why

    Wealthy nations have ordered millions of doses of unproven candidates, but equal access is the key to beating virusCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage
    by Sarah Boseley Health editor Sep 11, 2020 4 minutes
    The trial of the Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccine was put on pause this week after a volunteer became ill. Photograph: John Cairns/AP

    The UK has ordered a total of 340m doses of potential coronavirus vaccines from six manufacturers.

    The EU has done a deal said to be worth €2.4bn (£2.2bn) with one developer, while the US has orders with six companies for 800m doses under Operation Warp Speed, with options on a further 1.6bn.

    Wealthy countries are paying upfront for something that has not yet been proven to work, willing to spend whatever it takes to get their economies running again.

    And yet they could have backed the wrong horse. It is a lottery on an unprecedented scale.

    They have rolled the dice and cannot know whether the gamble will pay off. Earlier this week, the frontrunner the UK and EU have ordered, the Oxford University-AstraZeneca

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