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Vaccines: post-Brexit UK will vaccinate all over 50s by March. “Europeanist” Italy … in October? AstraZeneca chaos

The vaccination issue is very much alive and risks leading to an intimate crisis in the European Union. The UK will vaccinate all its citizens over 50 by March. A good record for a European country (not the Union …) that is possible thanks to three facts that also involve the Union:

  • EMA has not yet approved the Astra-Zeneeca vaccine, while the UK has already approved it for weeks. So London has an almost unlimited quantity of available doses;
  • The UK concluded the agreement with Astra Zeneca 3 months earlier than the Commission;
  • The UK pays a higher price for the vaccine, and, it won't be ethical, but whoever pays chooses the music, and the timing of delivery of the vaccines.

So while Boris Johnson was procuring vaccines at any cost, European countries were caught up in the usual "short arm" problem, they signed up and got … a lot of litigation:

  • with Pfizer for delivery delays, which, however, can be recovered. Meanwhile, there are delays;
  • with Astra Zeneca, a vaccine not yet approved, which has queued up doses for EU countries and is selling British production to other countries. One wonders why it would sell or stock up doses of a vaccine that the EMA has not yet approved.

Even EMA is behaving strangely, and this should make us think a little about how the certification bodies behave: in fact, while in the United Kingdom it will carry out vaccinations for over 50s especially with the Anglo-Swedish vaccine, it seems that EMA wants to approve the use, but only under 55 years. What is the difference between the mature people of the United Kingdom and those of the Union? Mysteries of Science, the one that rulers rely on …

Now the Commission is talking about lawsuits against Astra Zeneca. An answer sent back to the sender by the CEO of the company and which is of little use to people: neither the paperwork of the lawyers nor any financial reimbursements can be injected. We should not threaten, but treat, now, and teach them for the future, as the Germans who want to impose controls and restrictions on strategic vaccine exports are doing. The era of the absolute free market, the only fundamental belief of the EU, is about to decline.

Now, as Germany relies on a private contract with Biontech and France mobilizes Sanofi to produce the Pfizer vaccine, we are waiting and cheerfully, the authorities say we will have mass immunity by September October. So, according to the government, we will play another tourist summer and, according to many experts, it is a very optimistic forecast.

We therefore have a multi-level failure: the European Commission and, in Italy, the government. We take the liberty of giving advice to the future Conte III, or Renzi II: hire some specialized engineers, there are some and, if you want, we can give you names, and evaluate which Italian companies could produce the vaccines purchased under license in an emergency. this is the one and only way to vaccinate Italians early.


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The article Vaccines: post-Brexit UK will vaccinate all 50+ by March. The “European” Italy… in October? Chaos AstraZeneca comes from ScenariEconomici.it .


This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/vaccini-il-regno-unito-post-brexit-vaccinera-tutti-gli-ultra-cinquantenni-entro-marzo-litalia-europeista-ad-ottobre-caos-astrazeneca/ on Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:07:38 +0000.