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Originally Posted by jfman
Such a publicity stunt would almost certainly involve delaying vaccines to allow them to accumulate to that level. Or increasing capacity to issue them immediately upon arrival but being unable to vaccinate at that level across 7 days - on a weekly basis there's about 3 days worth at that level until at least June*. *if we trust the leaked Scottish Government data.
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I suspect Damian’s tongue was firmly lodged in his cheek at that point.
We don’t need any publicity stunts, we’re already outstripping the entire world, on a per capita basis, with the exceptions of Israel, because its signed up with Pfizer for a population scale survey in exchange for rapid supply, and a couple of the Gulf states which China is using to try to garner some good PR for its Sinopharm product.
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Then sent to Solna in Sweden for filling and exported from there. |
The AZ vaccine was initially bottled within the EU, which is probably what Von Der Lying was using as a pretext to insinuate that AZ was exporting product from the EU to fulfil UK orders. Since the Wrexham filling plant opened, we have had a complete domestic supply chain.
After the massive PR own goal last week, it’s very unlikely the EU would attempt to intercept drug products made in the UK, to fulfil a UK order, on the pretext that it had been bottled in the EU. However, it will be a few months before the Valneva product begins to enter the UK vaccination programme and if things do start to deteriorate further in the EU the UK government has already demonstrated its willingness to intervene to ensure there is adequate protection against UK supplies being purloined (which is how AstraZeneca came to be producing the Oxford vaccine in the first place).