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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Nonsense. If you read the article, it's all about a bulk-buying scheme so that we don't bid against each other and inflate the prices to daft levels. As happened with PPE.
I suspect BoJo fans will like the proposal, as they can say we can pick and choose which EU aspects we sign up to and yes we can have our cake and it eat.
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So the EU decides who gets what. Say the EU orders 400m doses, but how many would we be allowed to have? If the UK alone produced 100m doses, how many of those would we be allowed to use?
Doesn't matter what the price the EU offers, somebody else out there is always going to outbid. The price of PPE went up mainly to individual customers. EU suppliers aren't going to charge outrageous prices, because it would be a PR nightmare.
Looking further down in your link, we already have an order in place for 100m.
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Meanwhile, Oxford University signed a global licensing agreement with AstraZeneca for the manufacturing and commercialisation of their vaccine candidate. If the vaccine is successful, AstraZeneca will produce up to 30 million doses by September for people in the UK.
The agreement is for the pharmaceutical company to deliver a total of 100 million doses.
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