I must admit I was surprised to see ministers here talking about late summer for the majority to get vaccines . Now this report in Der Spiegle and The Times of London .
‘ The EU appears to have bought too little, too late and at times from the wrong producers. And it appears that it turned down hundreds of millions of vaccine doses that are now lacking.
Dramatic consequences are brewing for the German government: Without being able to vaccinate on a broad scale, the country won’t be able to stop the virus. Which means that the fall and winter of 2021 could be similar to this year, with high infection rates, contact restrictions and lockdowns. The only remedy would be a massive increase in the number of vaccines that are approved for use.
But Berlin has made an uncompromising commitment to European solidarity on the vaccination issue. And that means it’s not only the influential and economically strong member states that will have access, but also smaller countries like Romania and Slovenia. If Germany were to go out on its own and buy up vaccine doses that are in short supply, it would massively threaten cohesion in a Europe that is already fragile.
At the same time, though, the German federal government has an obligation to do all it can to protect its people.‘
Seems the EU with 450 million of population has only ordered 300 million vaccines and all require two vaccinations and to complicate it further whilst it had the opportunity to buy far more of the Pfizer vaccine it instead opted for the Sanofi vaccine which like the Oxford vaccine it has been delayed into next year .
Has the EU bought too little Vaccine?
Re: Has the EU bought too little Vaccine?
Germany bought 30 million doses of the Biontech vaccine on top of the EU quota.
