[onetimemanytime]

>>The US also didnt secure such contracts, they simply forbid any export.

USA bought vaccines from everyone a year ago and opened the check book, giving them billions without knowing if the vaccine will work. And then put all their weight to help them find factories and stuff. So USA gambled relatively nothing (Covid has cost many trillions) and gained a lot.

EU doing what they do best...meetings. USA bans exports in this sense: if Pfizer agreed to give USA 50 million shots in March, no exports until that number is delivered. Seems fair.

[bryanlarsen]

Pfizer wasn't part of Operation Warp Speed, they refused to join because they figured the bureaucracy would slow them down.

They did take some money from Germany though, because it came without strings.

Is it a coincidence that they were the first vaccine approved?

So to be fair it should be Germany getting all those Pfizer shots rather than the US.

[onetimemanytime]

But USA signed a purchase agreement to buy the vaccines way before EU did. Pfizer is obligated to deliver them first. Warp speed was just to get it going, USA would cover any loses.

Can we agree that $20 or even $50 Billion is NOTHING to USA or EU at this point...each month in delays costs more. USA realized that a year ago and blocked doses from all, including 100 million Pfizer doses in July 2020. https://investors.pfizer.com/investor-news/press-release-det...

[foepys]

You cannot compare this just by contracts. The US is blocking all exports of COVID-19 vaccines (except for AZ to Mexico and Canada just now). Pfizer/Biontech were until just a few weeks ago only producing in one location inside the EU so they were bottlenecked in fulfilling EU demand. Meanwhile the EU doesn't block exports.

The EU did a bad job but we have to keep the facts straight.