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Originally Posted by nomadking
IIRC previously the UK had signed up deals with half a dozen companies already. You can't sign up deals with each and every one around the world.
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Indeed. Which is why it would be churlish to point out that whereas the U.K. had preordered the Pfizer vaccine, the EU had not. It would also be churlish to accuse the EU of ordering a batch of the Pfizer vaccine in a “last minute panic” having not previously done so. It would be entirely unfair to point out that the UK and the EU each backed a different RNA vaccine and, based on which vaccine declared results first, and which is likely to be able to deliver in quantity first, the U.K. made the better call.
But I won’t make any of those observations because there’s inevitably an element of risk and gambling in a situation like this. What this shows us is that you win some and you lose some. What it doesn’t tell us is anything remotely useful about the supposed benefit of a common European medicines procurement policy.