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by throwaway10110 5y ago
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- zpeti 5y agoWhy not mention the very negative mentions of AZ by macron and merkel? Macron even wanted to stop all foreign vaccines and rely on some French one. I have no love for Putin or Johnson but this most certainly wasn’t down to just their politics. EU leaders are massively at fault here with their rhetoric too.
- rsynnott 5y agoThis is your brain on the Daily Mail, I think... There is no approved French vaccine.
- zpeti 5y agoMacron wanted to use this vaccine as a matter of national pride. He talked down Astrazeneca because of it: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/26/french-self-esteem-hit-after-pasteur-institute-abandons-covid-vaccine https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/26/french-self-es... Things have changed a lot since then, it's been forgotten.
- rsynnott 5y agoI'm not sure how you're getting that from that article (which doesn't even _mention_ AZ). If France had wanted to specifically use a French vaccine it would presumably have pursued an independent purchasing model, like the UK and Hungary.