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Old 13-11-2020, 00:11   #885
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Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by nomadking View Post
How was it not the case? Waiting months for any testing would've been an unnecessary delay. They didn't fail testing, they just hadn't yet been tested.
The Government had two choices - release it untested and label it as such or get it tested. Labelling something as tested when it isn't hasn't been has lots of downsides.

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Need to make sure we don't cut our nose off here to spite our face.
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COVID-19: Pfizer vaccine faces Brexit risk, UK partner warns

The boss of the British company supplying a crucial ingredient of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has warned that avoiding Brexit border disruption will be "a crucial step" in ensuring it is available to millions of people.

Yorkshire-based Croda International has provided a key chemical element of the vaccine to Pfizer in the trial phase, and has won a five-year contract that will see it deliver materials for 1.3 billion doses next year alone, worth around £75m.

Distributing the doses is a huge challenge and, deal or no-deal, the UK will have new customs controls from 1 January.

Questioned at a Downing Street news conference, Business Secretary Alok Sharma repeatedly failed to rule out the prospect of the supply of a vaccine being affected by Brexit border disruption.
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-...warns-12130837
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