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Absolutely not true. The UK Government paid for the AZ vaccine to be developed and then stipulated as part of the contract that it must be made available at co
by Wildgoose 6y ago
Absolutely not true. The UK Government paid for the AZ vaccine to be developed and then stipulated as part of the contract that it must be made available at cost to developing countries.
The EU on the other hand keeps seizing vaccines produced for other countries.
- brnt 6y ago> The EU on the other hand keeps seizing vaccines produced for other countries. Citation needed. I've not heard about this at all.
- collyw 6y agohttps://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/eu-official-astrazeneca-vaccine-exports-australia-halted-76251250 https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/eu-official-a...
- brnt 6y agoThat's one seizure, of a small number according to the source. The claim was 'keeps seizing'...
- fspeech 6y agoWhy isn't a small number enough? The law abiding distributors would follow the ban, thus making further seizures unnecessary. Though to be honest the EU ban only targeted export to countries with better conditions (lower case rate or higher vaccination rate than Europe) and was only to last a few weeks, at least initially.
- krzyk 6y agoIt was a ban to export mainly to UK which already had plenty of vaccines. And AZ wasn't delivering to EU what was promised. If you promise to deliver you better do, or don't produce the product in there and ship it elsewhere.
- mnw21cam 6y agoAnd the way that the UK shares is by setting up production in other countries, which makes more sense than producing in the UK and shipping everywhere. But it makes it look like the UK is tight-fisted because the vaccines don't get exported.
- rjsw 6y agoOne of the first AZ production sites was in India.