I agree that they shouldn't have tried to squeeze the last cent out of it, while the pandemic is costing much more. But would it really have changed things if

I agree that they shouldn't have tried to squeeze the last cent out of it, while the pandemic is costing much more. But would it really have changed things if they didn't? There wouldn't magically have been more factory capacity and it's not like the UK/US would allow for a substantial part of their capacity to be exported. Then there was also the unfortunate failure of the Sanofi vaccin and the late arrival of the Jannsen vaccin which was just really bad luck for the EU.