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Re: Coronavirus
In principle, the EU's decision to source the vaccine as a block rather than have member states compete against each other makes sense.
The problem is the Commission screwed up the procurement by being to slow to act. They took too long to place orders, they didn't place enough orders and they had a scattergun approach to which vaccines to back so out of the too few orders they had a bunch of them didn't get to release.
That last point is the true success of the U.K effort. Really placing large orders early shouldn't have been that difficult a task but the thing the U.K clearly did well was pick the right vaccines to back.
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