EU blocks export of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Australia

Re:EU blocks export of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Aust... by jariel on Thursday March 04, 2021 @02:33PM (#26347076)

The end-point of distribution is besides the point. It's not part of the discussion and is not even a problem anywhere really.

The EU is definitely the entity responsible for acquiring the vaccines on behalf of nation states - this is what is failing.

The 'delay' is not due to Denmark inability to field nurses, it's in the EU's ability to secure product - for whatever reason.

And in the end, it won't matter. If the EU ends up 6 months behind other nations 'there will be no excuses'.

I think that they'll probably catch up, but there's a real possibility they don't.

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Re:EU blocks export of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Aust... by tonyedgecombe on Thursday March 04, 2021 @04:19PM (#26348503)

The EU is definitely the entity responsible for acquiring the vaccines on behalf of nation states

Why? This isn't something the EU normally does.

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Re:EU blocks export of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Aust... by jariel on Thursday March 04, 2021 @05:25PM (#26349332)

For COVID, the EU decided to band together as a strategic manoeuvre to procure as a single entity.

The approach actually makes sense, if everyone was acting rationally and competently it would work.

But they screwed it up.

Everyone is clamouring about the 'new world order' and 'pivot to Asia' and wondering what the 'Brexit' result would be ... and the optics of this are 'EU in last place'. It's just a bad look, and it's an event that will ring through time with long lasting effects, at least in 'hearts and minds'. There's still chance to catch up however.

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Re:EU blocks export of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Aust... by tonyedgecombe on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:42AM (#26354908)

That doesn't answer the question.

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