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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
We all lose in such situations but AstraZeneca gets over 70% of its vaccine ingredients from the EU. In contrast, we supply the EU with just 17% of the ingredients used to make its vaccines.
The UK is indeed one of the suppliers for the Pfizer vaccine (lipid nanoparticles) but Merck now also produces the same ingredient in the EU.
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Only in several months time.
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Merck and BioNTech are further expanding their strategic partnership. Merck, in close collaboration with BioNTech, will significantly accelerate the supply of urgently needed lipids and increase the amount of lipid delivery towards the end of 2021.
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Lipids are critical to the drug delivery system of mRNA therapies to the body for a vaccine to be effective. Only very few companies in the world are currently able to produce custom lipids in significant quantities and according to the highest quality requirements needed for vaccine production.
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100% of Pfizer vaccine production is dependent on the UK.