It's not pure coincidence. It means that they have top teams working on the cutting edge and being pretty good at it, and that they have domestic pharma compani

It's not pure coincidence. It means that they have top teams working on the cutting edge and being pretty good at it, and that they have domestic pharma companies able to mass produce those advances quickly, which also means that they are at the cutting edge. And of course it means that, for once at least, the government acted strategically, decisively, and quickly (the government directly intervened so that production would go to a British company, for instance). France did not produce any vaccines. Germany produced one but effectively sold it to the US (Pfizer). Just to point that the UK is not to be written off just yet.