Extremely interesting iv with AZ chief Soriot:
“contract with UK was signed first and UK, of course, said “you supply us first”, and this is fair enough. vaccine was developed with UK govt, Oxford and with us as well. As soon as we can, we'll help the EU” repubblica.it/cronaca/2021/0…
“contract with UK was signed first and UK, of course, said “you supply us first”, and this is fair enough. vaccine was developed with UK govt, Oxford and with us as well. As soon as we can, we'll help the EU” repubblica.it/cronaca/2021/0…
What is surprised, in a way, is the absence of this type of “you supply us first” arrangement with say Germany and the German firm Biontech, with hundreds of millions in German govt and EU-funding that invented the Pfizer vaccine ...
extremely important piece of context here that AZ is exporting this at cost price, including essentially to developing countries, having been previously more focussed on monoclonal antibody COVID treatments... soriot’s predictions from last April - pretty much spot on:
https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1251837195532619776
But why didn’t they insist on producing it in Germany?
https://twitter.com/141percent/status/1354165310446829570
In general though - it’s in everyone’s self interest that everyone in the neighbourhood gets vaccinated - that applies to countries as well as streets...
And it looks like those production facilities are all being built now - they’ll be needed - by everybody:
https://twitter.com/jonad911/status/1354167169291087882
Also as AZ acknowledge that UK insisted on “you supply us first” - and Gov understandably wants the plaudits for that - surely no surprise that the reverse will now happen? Surprise to me was that EU nations didn’t do it, particularly given comfort with statism.
They will now.
They will now.
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