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No, the EU doesn't, unfortunately. > EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that the bloc will not share coronavirus vaccines with other countr

No, the EU doesn't, unfortunately. > EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that the bloc will not share coronavirus vaccines with other countries until it has "a better production situation in the EU." This is reported by DW. https://112.international/politics/eu-wont-share-covid-vaccine-with-poor-countries-yet-59913.html https://112.international/politics/eu-wont-share-covid-vacci...

noja 6y ago
> No, the EU doesn't, unfortunately. The EU did. For a year. And now it doesn't, since the UK and USA do not.
- esperent 6y ago
  > For a year The first vaccine only came out about 4 months ago. However, you are right - the EU has donated about 30 million doses, enough for 15 million people. It's not nothing, but not that much either.
  - noja 6y ago
    It's not just about donations, it didn't block deliveries either.
  - oblio 6y ago
    One month ago: > Overall, 77 million doses have been shipped from the European Union since early December, 88 million will have been distributed internally by the end of the week, and 62 million shots have been administered within the bloc, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/covid-vaccines-eu-export/2021/03/25/01a1d788-8cd3-11eb-a33e-da28941cb9ac_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/covid-vaccines-e... The EU tried to play nice and it was screwed over by other countries and by AstraZeneca. If you look at the numbers, the EU exported almost as many vaccines as it used, while its vaccination rate was half the UK/US one.
Shadonototro 6y ago
why would they give all their vaccine and forget about their own people they did, then stopped to plan the production, so they can share more later, that makes 100% sense and seems to be the best strategy to vaccinate everyone safely Saying "no they don't" is mostly a lie and is unfair to say, such a simplistic sentence that hides the real intentions

noja 6y ago

> No, the EU doesn't, unfortunately. The EU did. For a year. And now it doesn't, since the UK and USA do not.

esperent 6y ago
> For a year The first vaccine only came out about 4 months ago. However, you are right - the EU has donated about 30 million doses, enough for 15 million people. It's not nothing, but not that much either.
- noja 6y ago
  It's not just about donations, it didn't block deliveries either.
- oblio 6y ago
  One month ago: > Overall, 77 million doses have been shipped from the European Union since early December, 88 million will have been distributed internally by the end of the week, and 62 million shots have been administered within the bloc, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/covid-vaccines-eu-export/2021/03/25/01a1d788-8cd3-11eb-a33e-da28941cb9ac_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/covid-vaccines-e... The EU tried to play nice and it was screwed over by other countries and by AstraZeneca. If you look at the numbers, the EU exported almost as many vaccines as it used, while its vaccination rate was half the UK/US one.

Shadonototro 6y ago

why would they give all their vaccine and forget about their own people they did, then stopped to plan the production, so they can share more later, that makes 100% sense and seems to be the best strategy to vaccinate everyone safely Saying "no they don't" is mostly a lie and is unfair to say, such a simplistic sentence that hides the real intentions