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AstraZeneca also exported EU stockpiles to the UK leading to this shortfall.
by legulere 6y ago
AstraZeneca also exported EU stockpiles to the UK leading to this shortfall.
- vinay427 6y agoThe EU also hadn't approved the vaccine when those stockpiles were exported, and it was to compensate for UK domestic production shortfalls which the EU suffered from a few months later due in large part to the Commission delaying the contract. The UK got precedence because they were first in line and the EU couldn't yet use the vaccines.
- legulere 6y agoThose were stockpiled for the EU. Meanwhile also the US has a stockpile of AstraZeneca vaccines, but none were exported.
- youngtaff 6y agoApparently not many doses have been exported from Halix in NL, and they have a stockpile of doses
- markus92 6y agoA ton got exported in early January, although precise numbers don't seem to be public.
- youngtaff 6y agoWonder where they went… Based on this report (which is somewhat anecdotal), the EU exported ~10m vaccine doses to the UK - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-18/europe-with-millions-of-doses-unused-is-divided-on-export-ban https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-18/europe-wi... The majority of these doses will be Pfizer, as there's no production in the UK and the UK's MHRA reported ~10m people had a first Pfizer dose by end of Feb Everyone I know (me included) is currently being given AZ vaccine and I presume the Pfizer is being retained for second shots for those who've already had it. Of course there's politics in play, as well as the challenges of scaling up vaccine production but IMV biggest thing Britain could do is give enough Ireland enough doses to speedup the vaccination of their population