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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
What utter rubbish, Andrew. That's not on my mind at all.
Indeed, the quotes that got me going were from the Times and FT.
Unless you don't believe what those papers are reporting, there is no flaw in the conclusion I have reached.
Well, exactly. By any project management risk assessment standards, that would have been very high on probability and very high on negative effect. By all means sign the contract but mitigate the risks, which they didn't do. Political considerations would have ruled out the Russian/Chines vaccines and surely/maybe the Germans could have done something about Pfizer.
How can you be so far off the mark?
And stop coming across as the EC's spokesman on the forum. Credibility is surely everything.
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The EU and UK signed up pretty much for the same vaccines including the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine as well as the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. I've posted who ordered what previously.
Supplies of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine have not been as promised. Originally, AstraZeneca was due to supply 100m shots to the EU by the end of March. The company then said it could only supply 40m shots in this timescale due to production issues. It now looks like it won't achieve this and will only be able to supply 30m shots by the end of the month.