[Info-vax] [Totally OT] Covid-19 vaccine situation

[Dave Froble]

On 3/31/2021 3:05 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-03-31, Andy Burns <usenet at andyburns.uk> wrote:
>> Dave Froble wrote:
>>
>>> the EU decided that they should not have to wait in line, and since some
>>> vaccines were manufactured in the EU, they decided the vaccines belonged
>>> to the politicians running the EU, not the actual producers, and because
>>> they think they are in charge, can decide where the vaccines can go,
>>> regardless of the precedence of the orders from various customers.  Best
>>> part of that is at the time, the EU had NOT approved the vaccine(s) in
>>> question.
>>
>> All the time tens of millions of doses of AZ vaccine sit in warehouses
>> (in the EU), because the factory they were produced at (in the EU)
>> hasn't been approved (by the EU).
>
> Are you thinking about the doses found in Italy ?
>
> AZ have released a statement about that:
>
> https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2021/statement-on-covid-19-vaccine-supply-at-anagni-plant-in-italy.html
>
> Given that the EU seized the delivery for Australia, I really hope they
> are not daft enough to seize the COVAX doses at that plant.

Hope all you want.  They've already shown what they are capable of.

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