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Re:Covid: US backs waiver on vaccine intellectual property by throwaway6734 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @07:38AM (#27061737)
>Currently vaccine companies such as the German Curevac (which is the vaccine company Trump famously tried to buy) is being held back by lack of core ingredients which are under American export bans.

Do you know specifically which materials?

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Re:Covid: US backs waiver on vaccine intellectual property by blywi on Thursday May 06, 2021 @09:20AM (#27062791)
I had the exact same question. What I could find was this Reuters article [0] which lists nucleotides and special plastic containers as two of the items in short supply.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

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