COVID Vaccine Supply

Doesn't seem like that's a good idea, since the supply of vaccines is not infinite.

Your complaints are disconnected from reality. Vaccines aren't being hoarded. It takes time to set up export and delivery cold chains with all of the necessary quality and safety checks. Giving people spoiled vaccines would be worse than no vaccines.

This article indicates the US is exporting vaccines: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

Yes, because making a vaccine for which there are over 7 billion customers that need it is absolutely the same as selling whatever. Production capacity is so far below what is needed that any vaccine manufactured in the first year or two is guaranteed to be bought.In any case, the question at hand was whether or not the US admin funded Pfizer, and it did not. It gave them assurances, but so did many other entities ( like the EU), so the US really cannot be hailed as some sort of

Why not share the knowledge make the vaccine in all three countries? AFAIK for the last 2-3 days EU and US are partners again, not enemies.

Vaccination is less of a supply problem and more of a distribution and demand problem. One vaccine administered in the western world does not mean one vaccine has been made unavailable to the third world. It's similar to food scarcity, the primary problem is poor infrastructure making distribution networks extremely inefficient.

Gentlemen, the hole is due to the fact that no company has the large scale productive capacity for the newly discovered COVID-19 vaccine.Ordering earlier and paying more would just have shifted distribution around, and would not have made more doses available. Every vaccination done in the US or the UK means one less vaccine dose for Europe.And that is not "ducking responsibility", it is basic logic - as one cannot fit 10 pegs in 9 holes, one cannot vaccinate 10 people wi

I'm stumped they didn't consider buying other vaccines. Maybe they don't want to be reliant on the west. They're indeed doing a mistake keep the lock strategy...

the only guess going around is that they're not a traditional vaccine manufacturer. as such, they don't have the expertise for this kind of a roll out.but this is still a guess at this point.

Uhm, no they're not. Many countries are struggling to acquire vaccines even today as they waste away in the US.