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Re:AstraZeneca/EU contract by zwaps on Saturday January 30, 2021 @08:57PM (#25975026)
Op meant having the same clause for the Pfizer/BionTech vaccine, which was developed and is mostly produced in the EU.

If the EU had done that, things would look quite different today. Even for the UK.

We can all be glad that the EU was quite a bit more naive than the UK.

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Re:AstraZeneca/EU contract by makomk on Sunday January 31, 2021 @05:48PM (#25983380)
Somehow I doubt the UK would have been so happy to rely on in-EU production of the Pfizer/BionTech vaccine if they'd done that. As I understand it, the UK production facilities for the AZ vaccine exist mostly because the government wanted at least one UK-produced vaccine in case Trump pulled some kind of vaccine nationalism move and restricted exports. If there was reason to suspect the EU was the one likely to do that...
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