[THREAD] This week, I reported for @thecontinent_ that South Africa's Aspen Pharmacare had been forced to destroy 30-million #COVID19vaccine doses. Aren’t these the same doses binned in the US after problems at J&J’s Emergent plant there? bit.ly/2XtEZ8j
2/5 No, these 30m #COVID19Vaccine doses destroyed in South Africa are not the same as those binned in the US, says head of African Vaccine Distribution Alliance Dr Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija, who revealed this at a WHO presser. Here’s part of that audio transcript: 
3/5 The African Vaccine Distribution Alliance has been working to support government rollouts. Still, there is a lack of public transparency, Olatunbosun-Alakija says, re: pretty much anything about #COVID19 vaccine production & available supply from pharmaceutical companies.
4/5 In my own reporting, companies won’t even confirm which countries are buying #COVID19 treatments. If you look at the reporting tracing vaccine shipments, it relies entirely on leaks or unnamed sources because of NDAs. Or it’s what companies say & can't be fact checked.
5/5 Olatunbosun-Alakija isn’t the only one who thinks there’s a transparency problem. #COVAX head Seth Berkeley recently asked the public to join his calls for greater transparency in #COVID19Vaccine supply chains from producers to ensure Covax is not last in line for jabs.
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