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Drugs aren't produced by states, they're produced in states by drugs companies. This is consortia purchasing. If you get how this works then you will understand how the remainder of your post makes little sense.
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It's actually a spot-on point and I could see objections to this from EU member states. It's not a dig, that's a disappointingly defensive suggestion. It actually allows BoJo to face his critics in the eye and own the cake and eat argument.
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Perhaps you missed my additional point, about the UK already has an order in place for 100m. Why would we need to pool it with the EU, and only perhaps get 20m doses?
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Business Secretary Alok Sharma said: “Our scientists are at the forefront of vaccine development. This deal with AstraZeneca means that if the Oxford University vaccine works, people in the UK will get the first access to it, helping to protect thousands of lives.
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The real reason for low death rates in places like Japan and South Korea?
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He thinks it is possible a Sars-like virus has circulated in the region before, which may account for the low death rate, not just in Japan, but in much of China, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South East Asia.
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Japan didn't do anything much.
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This is particularly striking because Japan has many of the conditions that make it vulnerable to Covid-19, but it never adopted the energetic approach to tackling the virus that some of its neighbours did.
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Although it helps not having a population of morons.
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There is no "Factor X" - like everywhere else it has depended on the same thing - breaking the chain of transmission. In Japan, though, the government can count on the public to comply.
Despite not ordering people to stay at home, on the whole, they did.
"It was lucky but also surprising," Prof Shibuya says. "Japan's mild lockdowns seems to have had a real lockdown effect. Japanese people complied despite the lack of draconian measures."
"How do you reduce contact between infected and uninfected people...? You need a certain kind of response from the public, which I don't think is going to be so easily replicated in other countries," adds Prof Fukuda.
Japan asked people to take care, stay away from crowded places, wear masks and wash their hands - and by and large, that is exactly what most people have done
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