EU preparing legal case against AstraZeneca over vaccine shortfalls

Re:EU preparing legal case against AstraZeneca over vaccine ... by throw-8462682 on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:38AM (#26899888)

At this point, AZ must really regret having gone down the road of working with Oxford to supply a Covid vaccine. They are not even making money off it at the moment. Pfizer on the other hand hit gold with their BioNTech collaboration. They are making 10+ B this year and probably even more in brand value. AZ on the other hand lost billions of brand value. Is there a morale of this story?

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Re:EU preparing legal case against AstraZeneca over vaccine ... by _Microft on Thursday April 22, 2021 @03:39AM (#26899903)

I bet a lot of people will hate to hear that but I think the morale of the story is "Don't overpromise and underdeliver".

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Re:EU preparing legal case against AstraZeneca over vaccine ... by sschueller on Thursday April 22, 2021 @04:53AM (#26900411)

So far that hasn't hurt Elon Musk a bit...

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Re:EU preparing legal case against AstraZeneca over vaccine ... by rsynnott on Thursday April 22, 2021 @08:33AM (#26901996)

The moral of the story is, don't contract to deliver 100 million widgets in a quarter and then actually deliver 30 million widgets. It's pretty simple; remove the vaccine context and there's nothing at all controversial going on here.

Missing production forecasts is one thing, but missing them by this much is unusual and will usually result in trouble for the manufacturer.

Really, I'd say it's more the case that Oxford is regretting working with AZ, rather than a more established vaccine manufacturer.

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Re:EU preparing legal case against AstraZeneca over vaccine ... by PunchTornado on Thursday April 22, 2021 @08:57AM (#26902203)

also don't fulfil 1 contract at 100% and another one at 30%..

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Re:EU preparing legal case against AstraZeneca over vaccine ... by thomasahle on Thursday April 22, 2021 @04:06AM (#26900104)

High risks, high rewards?

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