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Producing vaccines is difficult and it takes time to ramp up production. But the German government also failed miserably here. Probably they did not believe in the success of the mRNA technology in the first place. But once it became obvious that it is a success they also showed no interest in ramping up production and ramping it up fast. The German law would allow to take away the patent of BioNtech and allow anyone to help with the production. So they would have some leverage if BioNtach were the ones that would slow down the ramp up. They decided to not go this path and I am not sure why. I can understand when a company says, look we have limited resources and we do as much as we can. I cannot understand that when it comes to the government as it has basically unlimited resources when it comes down to money. This is a huge failure of the EU administration / German government. Ursula van der Leyen should step down. Angela Merkel will not run again anyway.