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Bruno Maçães

6 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read

Stop everything and read this. Everything you had to do on vaccines, everything the opposite of what the EU did repubblica.it/cronaca/2021/0…

“Everyone thinks it was sort of amazing. It wasn't. It's what we do.”

Then read my recent piece. Wish I had this interview when I wrote it as it supports the points I make 💯
unherd.com/2021/02/why-th…

“The UK had a very strategic approach, which was to secure vaccines quickly. And the European approach seems to be more sort of a more typical procurement approach, which was more about making sure you got the best value for money for your vaccines.”

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