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).
It does get convoluted. Depending on what the "nationalist" goals are their export/non-export of vaccines can manifest in surprisingly different ways. One country can say "me first" but another - let's just call them China for short- can use the export and distribution as a colonializing, nationalistic goal enhancer even before its own people are taken care of. Unless anyone thinks they lie awake at night worrying about the well-being of Indonesians and Brazilians and so on. So in both instances- one favoring non-export and the other promoting it- it is for nationalist purposes. And then you have countries such as India that selectively do mix and match and hope that they can still come out looking on the good side. They are actively touting this policy of "taking care of themselves and their neighbors first" except their closest and most needy neighbor is Pakistan which they refuse to include in their distribution. Being altruistic is complicated I guess. The Chinese win either way. Eventually someone will come up with the brilliant idea of making the WHO the center for funding (read U.S) and development of vaccines for the third world. Their so-called COVAX program. And from there they will use U.S. funding to buy Chinese vaccines to distribute to the third world and every dose says China on it. It all good for China, as far as the eye can see and then some.
This a bit messy but at least they are upping their game a bit instead of being deer in the headlights. Good. Keep improving. Keep upping your plan. Yeh, I know. I am being generous. Nevertheless. If no wasted vaccine I will take the small win. It kind of boggles my mind how people can use twitter or whatever to throw a flash mob together in ten minutes to sing happy birthday for some granny who served in WW2 but didnt get any birthday cards but cannot seemingly generate vaccine patients when vaccine is about to expire or scheduled patients no-show for appointments. Work on it a little. Maybe even a lot. The solutions are right in front of you. A failed freezer forced an overnight dash to give out more than 1,600 doses of the coronavirus vaccine https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/01/30/seattle-coronavirus-vaccine-overnight/
Single Pfizer shot 90 percent effective after 21 days: study https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-02-pfizer-shot-percent-effective-days.html
Biden says U.S. will have enough vaccine for 300 million people by end of July In securing the additional doses, the government used options built into contracts negotiated last year by the Trump administration. THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/02/11/vaccine-supply-biden/
Let's outline the facts... Trump REJECTED buying additional doses from Pfizer and Moderna. Biden closed the deal to buy the additional doses to cover our complete population.
Trump created contracts that included the option to buy additional doses. He rejected buying additional from Pfizer when they gamed him on the price. And then after they came around he exercised that option. Now Biden is exercising options that were included in the contracts that Trump developed. I should have placed the comment I made in the post a couple above in quotes because it was a direct quote from the article. My bad. I shall remedy that below: "In securing the additional doses, the government used options built into contracts negotiated last year by the Trump administration."
You are re-writing history --- including the "gaming on price" stuff. It was Trump attempting to game the vaccine manufacturers on price (he failed). His "art of the deal" nonsense where he bullies people to avoid paying them might work on his lawyers but not on vaccine manufacturers.
Biden is exercising options to buy more vaccine under the terms of Trump's contracts. I stand by that and supported with a quote from one of the many ways that it can be confirmed. I shall leave it there because I recognize that it does not support your agenda. Let the viewers decide. THANK YOU AGAIN PRESIDENT TRUMP.
Trump administration passed up chance to lock in more Pfizer vaccine doses The White House reportedly declined “multiple” offers from Pfizer to strike a deal on more vaccines for the second quarter of 2021. https://www.nbcnews.com/science/sci...hance-lock-more-pfizer-vaccine-doses-n1250357 Trump officials scramble to justify decision not to buy extra Pfizer vaccine doses Ex-FDA chief confirms administration turned down offer to reserve additional doses of vaccine, set to be first approved for US use https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/08/trump-pfizer-vaccine-coronavirus