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Re:EU blocks export of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Aust... by s1artibartfast on Thursday March 04, 2021 @03:33PM (#26347871)
The contract was very clear on the obligations and expectations. It defined a process for AZ to notify the EU of shortfall, which AZ followed. AZ was required to put forth it's best efforts to meet the targets, which it did. The EU did not negotiate any exclusivity for EU production or penalties for missed targets, and it is crazy to think this was an accidental oversight by the EU legal team.

The EU is clearly very interested in this "dud" because their few other vaccine investments were unlucky, performed worse, and didn't make it through trials

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Re:EU blocks export of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Aust... by pgeorgi on Friday March 05, 2021 @11:06AM (#26358348)
> The EU is clearly very interested in this "dud" because their few other vaccine investments were unlucky, performed worse, and didn't make it through trials

https://qap.ecdc.europa.eu/public/extensions/COVID-19/vaccin... claims that 47M doses in total have been distributed across the EU. Of those, 8.7M are AZ.

If that company continues to be such a high maintenance supplier (the others had production shortages as well, but _somehow_ they managed to not make a mess out of that that made EU bureaucrats consider it necessary to set up an export control instrument just for them) any effort to get AZ involved might have been better invested in supporting any of the others.

For reference, the sums per product that I extracted from that data set (as of 2021-03-05):

    AstraZeneca      8.682.532
    BBIBV-CorV         550.000
    Moderna          3.069.953
    Pfizer/BioNTech 34.366.485
    Sputnik V           46.000
    Unknown            604.275
    --------------------------
    Total           47.319.245
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