Made point before - issue was EU at first insufficiently protective of its own exports, possibly as a result of listening to some of the bigger pharma companies, not controlling for example even some of the first vaccines it funded... unlike UK with govt funded and brokered AZ-Ox
https://twitter.com/MatinaStevis/status/1369639472447565833
consequence however of political pressure EU under here - is next time, or if ongoing need for an EU originating vaccine/treatment/component - they’ll find a way to insist on domestic first supply, as UK has... thread from a few weeks back explaining:
https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1354723408098025472?s=21
https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1354723408098025472
In general though, in context of AZ-Ox being distributed via India around developing world at cost price, difficult to sustain argument that UK has been vaccine “nationalist”... perhaps initially vaccine protective....
EU firms have made billions from these exports to ROW.
EU firms have made billions from these exports to ROW.
Not much directly, but AzOx was licensed for 2bn doses for manufacture at cost in India for around the world including Covax. And it now looks like some of that will be authorised for reimport to EU and Uk too.
https://twitter.com/Citizenofnowhe4/status/1369689401400426496
Biden appearing with both Merck and J&J bosses, who his administration brought together to manufacture the one shot vaccine, says all Americans will be able to be vaccinated months ahead of expectations in May - also a reminder that Govt pushed Oxf vaccine towards AZ not Merck 
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