The investment doesn't seem very clear-cut[1]: "[W]hen I went to visit the site and I asked how much they’re received from the British government, the chairman

The investment doesn't seem very clear-cut[1]: "[W]hen I went to visit the site and I asked how much they’re received from the British government, the chairman and the CEO were there and they told me ‘zero’.". It could be money just given to Oxford, to support Halix, but I have no idea. > I think the main difference between the U.K. and EUs approaches is that the U.K. were willing to accept some vaccines would fail and other succeed but were willing to accept the loses That doesn't seem to be the case. Both have reasonably diversified sources and have bought much more than needed (at the end of 2020, 246% EU & 419% UK according to https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/03/942303736/how-rich-countries-are-hoarding-the-worlds-vaccines-in-charts https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/03/9423037...). Both (currently) rely on the same vaccines (AZ, moderna, BT & J&J), with the uk having ordered primarily AZ, Valneva, Sanofi, Novavax & Curevac vaccines and of the vaccines currently used, the EU has bought more per capita (current data, BT was probably less), except AZ. So it seems (at least in hindsight) that the uk was lucky AZ worked out, otherwise the doses of the currently used vaccines wouldn't have been enough (barely, approx 58 Million people fully vaccinated), while the EU has more than enough doses (630 Million people fully vaccinated) [2]. (of course, that would have been sufficient for vaccinating everyone that wants to & is able to in the uk). The spread seems to have been wide enough in both countries. I can't find anything resembling a delivery schedule or doses delivered for the UK, but I assume, based on ~90 Million doses given out in the UK, of which at most 31 Millionen doses were BT (assuming all fully vaccinated people have BT and all remaining doses need to be used for a second vaccination), AZ has delivered more than 60% of the contracted doses, while that count currently stands at approx. 12% for the EU (germany currently has received 6.8 Million and they get a fifth). That's a huge difference. (I'm assuming the moderna doses given out in the uk are currently negligible) [1]: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/vaccine-tsar-says-eu-will-get-astrazeneca-doses-over-which-uk-made-claim-1.4532523 https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/vaccine-tsar-sa... [2]: https://launchandscalefaster.org/covid-19/vaccineprocurement https://launchandscalefaster.org/covid-19/vaccineprocurement