Because it’s a very small amount of money relative to the impact of the pandemic. Even if these vaccines only added 1% to the fight against the pandemic they’d

Because it’s a very small amount of money relative to the impact of the pandemic. Even if these vaccines only added 1% to the fight against the pandemic they’d be worth it. This is another expression of the “penny wise, pound foolish” decision-making process that led to the EU being last in lines for the vaccines in the first place.