Thread by @banglani

Key statement at 2:03

https://twitter.com/pfizer/status/1389203084879011840

Let's forget Pfizer for a minute. Here's a timeline of the AstraZeneca vaccine:

Feb 2020 - Development started at Oxford
May 2020 - Licensed to AZ, 1 BILLION doses ordered (100M UK, 300M US)
June 2020 - SII license granted, WHO orders 300M
July 2020 - Clinical trials begin

Aug 2020 - EU orders 400M
Sep 2020 - WHO orders another 100M
Nov 2020 - Bangladesh orders 30M, Thailand orders 26M, phase 3 trial results published
Dec 2020 - UK approves use, South Korea orders 20M
Jan 2021 - India approves use. Orders *11M* doses (SII has 70M stockpiled)

Feb 2021 - India orders 10M doses, then another 45M doses
Mar 2020 - India orders 100M doses
Apr 2021 - India orders 110M doses
28-Apr-2021 - India finally pays SII 1700 Cr advance to scale up manufacturing

That difference between May 2020 and April 2021, in two heartbreaking graphs:

We do nothing when developed countries order a billion doses, do nothing when an Indian company gets the license to manufacture, do nothing when phase 3 results are published, do nothing when the UK approves it, order 11M doses for 1.3B people,then crib there isn't enough vaccine