EU unhappy with astrazeneca
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LOL Your making me laugh so much lately I might fall off my chair.
It's part of the contract with AstraZeneca (vaccine supply to poor countries) in addition to financial contribution to Covax.
Is it part of the EU contract I wonder? Unless they redacted that clause.
In your dreams
Where did the Pfizer vaccine come from.....the EU
Astra Zeneca....is part Swedish.....an EU member.
60% of Meds used in UK come from....EU.
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Let filly have this one, it makes him feel better to think it is coming from Blighty.
Its a war thing with him. Don't burst his bubble.
EU increases its contribution to COVAX to €500 million to secure COVID-19 vaccines for low and middle-income countries
And:
European Commission is announcing a pledge of €300 million to Gavi
thats between 27 member states though... thats 30 million per country/state
I wonder if Tory mates are making money out of it.
'healthcare company ultimately controlled by leading Tory donor and former party chairman, Lord Ashcroft, has received a £350m contract as part of the government’s COVID-19 vaccination roll-out, openDemocracy has learned"
Always follow the money.
Tories are happy to spend taxpayers money when a nice lump drops in their pocket.
LOL. Has this just happened or did they have the foresight and generosity to do this several months ago, like a third country did?
In this case, the Oxford Vaccine was developed by Oxford university, entirely in the UK. It happens to be one of the cheapest and easiest to store, thus making it a more desirable and easily distributable vaccine that the pfizer or moderna vaccines.
Matt Hancock ensured that the production of the vaccine went to a UK based Multi national, not Merck.
Boris has confirmed that UK factories will supply vaccine to the EU and that we will share our excess doses.
This is all good news for the UK and is something we should give our government credit for. I think our government's response to the EU hysteria has been very controlled, measured and mature, unlike the EU's knee jerk and badly though through response to AZ's EU based production problems.
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Let us examine what we know:
The UK signed the contract earlier than EU, way before the clinical trials were conclusive. A big risk, but their gamble paid off. They're perfectly within their rights to do so. Morally and politically it's been a big boost for them. It has been their only right move so far.
The UK set in motion an ambition and a process to use the vaccines as soon as they became available and as fast as possible. Again, a bit of a gamble, but it's paid off handsomely in moral and political prestige. So another big boost to the prestige of UK government. Their second right move so far, and possibly recovered the poor rating of the government over the handling of the pandemic.
The EU signed their contract later when the clinical trials were well under way, so less of a gamble. Their contract was for massively more vaccines and value than the UK contract. Less risky and still well in time, and the delivery schedule could not really benefit an earlier signing.
The EU (EMA) approved the use of the vaccines rather later, but again, there was no rush due to the contracted delivery of the vaccines.
When the vaccine delivery were due, AZ announced a problem with the delivery schedule, eventually blaming the contract with UK for the restriction.
EU kicked up a right stink over it, using such public pressure as pressing for the publication of the contract to reinforce its argument. AZ resisted that publication. EU threatened legal action, even threatened public political action, and invoked a procedure to produce transparency over the export of vaccines. The contract was published, albeit in redacted form.
UK denied such restrictions in their contract with AZ.
UK government became magnanimous and started publicly offering to assist other countries with the supply of vaccines.
AZ agreed to supply more vaccines to EU.
Situation resolved.
End of factual sequence of events.
There is a rather egregious explanation of those events.
UK did indeed put pressure on AZ (political, moral or financial pressure) to divert the vaccines due to EU to UK. The UK, of course denied this.
The EU threats were of such magnitude that the UK could not maintain the pressure on AZ. AZ relented, and agreed to supply more vaccines to EU.
Now in this explanation and scenario, who caused the problem?
The UK signed the contract earlier than EU, way before the clinical trials were conclusive. A big risk, but their gamble paid off. They're perfectly within their rights to do so. Morally and politically it's been a big boost for them. It has been their only right move so far.
The UK set in motion an ambition and a process to use the vaccines as soon as they became available and as fast as possible. Again, a bit of a gamble, but it's paid off handsomely in moral and political prestige. So another big boost to the prestige of UK government. Their second right move so far, and possibly recovered the poor rating of the government over the handling of the pandemic.
The EU signed their contract later when the clinical trials were well under way, so less of a gamble. Their contract was for massively more vaccines and value than the UK contract. Less risky and still well in time, and the delivery schedule could not really benefit an earlier signing.
The EU (EMA) approved the use of the vaccines rather later, but again, there was no rush due to the contracted delivery of the vaccines.
When the vaccine delivery were due, AZ announced a problem with the delivery schedule, eventually blaming the contract with UK for the restriction.
EU kicked up a right stink over it, using such public pressure as pressing for the publication of the contract to reinforce its argument. AZ resisted that publication. EU threatened legal action, even threatened public political action, and invoked a procedure to produce transparency over the export of vaccines. The contract was published, albeit in redacted form.
UK denied such restrictions in their contract with AZ.
UK government became magnanimous and started publicly offering to assist other countries with the supply of vaccines.
AZ agreed to supply more vaccines to EU.
Situation resolved.
End of factual sequence of events.
There is a rather egregious explanation of those events.
UK did indeed put pressure on AZ (political, moral or financial pressure) to divert the vaccines due to EU to UK. The UK, of course denied this.
The EU threats were of such magnitude that the UK could not maintain the pressure on AZ. AZ relented, and agreed to supply more vaccines to EU.
Now in this explanation and scenario, who caused the problem?
The Oxford vaccine is the Oxford AZ vaccine so filly is correct in a sense but was funded over all by several countries and we are not the one that put most into it. The EU has a whole has a bigger economy so can put more in as has the USA. Filly's problem really, and some others, is that we are out and there seems to be some remaining hate in him. Maybe he is one of the people who feel that all of the uk's woes are down to it being in the EU. They aren't and never have been.
COVAX may have more to do with the UK and maybe Sweden. The AZ vaccine went down the route it did to obtain an easy to use vaccine. Seems Johnson and Johnson have as well. Mixed reporting, one said it had and another suggested it was different.
COVAX may have more to do with the UK and maybe Sweden. The AZ vaccine went down the route it did to obtain an easy to use vaccine. Seems Johnson and Johnson have as well.
Mixed reporting, one said it had and another suggested it was different.
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Creepy Dangee is worried when I'm not around to provide him with a conspiracy theory or two.
Still, it keeps him occupied and out of mischief, I suppose.
He's obviously not got any
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Happy to oblige.
“The European Commission and the European Investment Bank are strong supporters of COVAX, the world's facility to ensure fair and universal access to COVID-19 vaccines. Together with the EU Member States, Team Europe has so far allocated more than €850 million to COVAX, which makes the European Union COVAX's biggest donor. The European Commission and EIB's combined support of €500 million will enable COVAX to make one billion doses of vaccines available as rapidly as possible to people in low and middle income countries”, said the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_2262
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transam's fake news.
Except it's not news, he read it somewhere on one of his favourite websites that promotes such fake news.
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