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Originally Posted by Chris
The EU’s behaviour here is ridiculous. Everyone should read the La Repubblica article Andrew posted yesterday. It’s an interview with AstraZeneca’s CEO who is clearly frustrated by their game playing.
They signed up for the Oxford-AstraZenica vaccine three months after the UK but demanded supplies on the same basis as the UK. AZ told the European Commission this simply would not be possible because establishing new production capacity always throws up teething problems that take time to fix. The deal AZ signed with the EU was therefore on a “best effort” basis. As long as AZ has been working hard and in good faith to fulfil the order from the EU then the contract is being met.
If AZ people turned up in Brussels today to find out they were in for a carpeting for not doing something they always warned they couldn’t guarantee to do, then I’m not surprised they decided not to go through with the meeting.
The question now is whether the EU decides to try to interfere in export of vaccine products. Pascal Soriot (AZ CEO) has warned that due to the nature of its supply chains, all this will achieve will be to slow things down still further.
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As someone who has only had the first Pfizer jab the threat of there not being a second jab available for myself and all the other older/vunerable/key medical workers is extremely worrying. I accepted that more people getting a jab justified the delay but I need to know just how this will pan out if the follow up jab is further delayed.
My hope is that tests are currently being undertaken to confirm the levels of cover the single Pfizer vaccination has actually given us and whether those levels of cover start to decrease over the coming weeks/months.