I know what-ifs are hard, perhaps even borderline futile...
... but what if the European Commission had *not* introduced its vaccine export transparency mechanism end of January?
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... but what if the European Commission had *not* introduced its vaccine export transparency mechanism end of January?
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At one level, we know two comparatively minor things happened: only 1 export (250k AZ doses to Australia) was stopped as a result. And the mechanism has given us some statistics on numbers of vaccines exported since 31 January
But beyond that?
Would more AZ doses have gone from EU to UK had it not been introduced?
Would J&J have sent more doses to the USA?
Would more AZ doses have gone from EU to UK had it not been introduced?
Would J&J have sent more doses to the USA?
The EU is in a *much better* situation with vaccine supply now than 3 months ago, but the majority of that change... is because of a ramping up of BioNTech production, and Pfizer/BioNTech hasn't been touched by the transparency mechanism
A counter argument would be that the mechanism marked the point where the EU said "OK, enough is enough. No other bloc is doing anything other than defending its turf. Now we need to as well."
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