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> The bottleneck is vaccine production Given claims like "I have 70m doses that I can’t ship because they have been purchased but not approved. They have a she
by bzbarsky 6y ago
> The bottleneck is vaccine production
Given claims like "I have 70m doses that I can’t ship because they have been purchased but not approved. They have a shelf life of six months; these expire in April." from https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/14/we-took-a-huge-risk-the-indian-firm-making-more-covid-jabs-than-anyone https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/14/w... it seems like claiming that the bottleneck is production needs some serious caveats....
- bajsejohannes 6y agoHuh, I hadn't seen this. Thanks for enlightening me. I'm curious where these 70M doses are bought but not approved. As far as I can tell, AstraZeneca is approved all over Europe.
- bzbarsky 6y agoUnfortunately, the article doesn't make clear which exact vaccines it's discussing. So it's entirely possible that the specific vaccines approved in Europe are supply-constrained, while other vaccines are in the situation described in the article. All that means is that saying that "the problem problem is production" is very specific-vaccine and specific-regulatory-unit dependent and needs to be evaluated carefully.