[mikece]

Hardly surprising. Say what you will about the person elected to the office of POTUS but if their dominant attitude is "America First" then it shouldn't be a surprise if policies -- and the result of policies -- actually put America first or at the head of the line. I'm curious how Israel out-did us though. I have to imagine their massive brain trust of medical and biotech has something to do with it.

[colpabar]

>I'm curious how Israel out-did us though.

They paid more.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-will-reportedly-pay-mor...

[maxerickson]

That's presumably for EU production of the vaccine.

So Israel probably didn't really compete with the US for it.

[colpabar]

first paragraph:

>Israel will pay a premium price for the millions of COVID-19 vaccines it has ordered from US-based pharmaceutical company Pfizer, over 40 percent more than the US government or the European Union, Channel 13 news reported Sunday.

[maxerickson]

Pfizer has a Covid-19 vaccine production facilities in the EU and is selling the vaccines produced there to countries that aren't the US.