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Originally Posted by Chris
What a surprise, Americans don’t like the idea that a vastly cheaper and more manageable vaccine might be about as effective as the two cryogenically cooled, eye-wateringly expensive ones developed in ... America.
The Oxford vaccine works, the headline announcement actually went with the average of all test results in any case (70%, which is still very effective), and even on Monday they were quite explicit in explaining where the 90% sample came from and how they were following it up.
Americans have protectionist instincts. No surprise there. This is a non story.
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While I'm equally sceptical of American input/insight into anything trade related as they'll have obvious protectionist tendencies and they have another dog in this race I look forward to more data and peer review to clear matters up.
I'm sure we all want a vaccine that works, and not just the cheapest one we can drape in a Union Flag.