The Brits and EU have got themselves a first class food fight going over vaccine these days.
A lot of Brit-first and EU-first rhetoric mixed in with it. Not cool for lefties.
They have pretty much lost ground in the last couple months. Virus has exploded and their vaccine and distribution system is very shaky to non-existent. The EU lefties were all ramping up their criticism of the US for wanting the vaccine that we helped develop and pay for to be for Americans first. Now, they are so busy protecting their own arses and running for the lifeboats that they have lost their fake high ground. They were acting like the Canadians, Trudeau in particular, who was crowing las month about how much vaccine Canada is going to give to third world countries. WTF! You don't have any until someone gives you some.
The lefties can't find a way to blame it on Trump so they just ignore it and go back to making the U.S. situation look the worst. It's what they do.
Joe will get em some Chinese vaccine through the UN. Maybe put Hunter in charge of the effort. Big Guy gets 10.
"The warning comes after a row among the EU, the UK, and AstraZeneca this week after the drugs firm said it would reduce supplies of its COVID-19 vaccine to the bloc by 75% due to production problems."
The EU's plan to block vaccine exports will be 'devastating' for global vaccine supply, warn business leaders
https://www.businessinsider.com/eu-...isks-devastating-global-vaccine-supply-2021-1
What we are seeing is nothing more than the "nationalism" of vaccines in a global crisis where we have arrived at the point where every leading nation is focused on "me first" in a situation with a scarcity of vaccines. I expect we will see more with countries seizing doses of vaccines in transshipment -- just like we say earlier with ventilators and PPE. Contracts be damned - everyone for themselves.
There is also news this past week about Indian government officials threatening not to provide vaccine raw materials and doses to other countries unless more doses are distributed within India. This, of course, would impact global supply chains and hurt India's "vaccine diplomacy" efforts. And this is a situation where the country is actually meeting its internal distribution targets but is uneven across regions (especially those areas where politicians demanding "India first" are from).