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Pyro as Bill said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

At the bolded part: Source?

Also, Oxford invented that vaccine... but they did so in cooperation with Astra, the Swedish part of AstraZeneca. Oxford themselves wouldn't have been able to do it without access to their facilities. The vaccine is a product of UK-EU cooperation, if you like it or not.

Also, the UK should have gotten 100% of the first 140M doses? You are aware that over half of those are getting produced in the EU, right? So in short, you want the EU to help develop the vaccine, produce it for you, ship it free of charge and give the EU a kick in the arse for helping develop the vaccine and producing it for you and expect them not to raise their voice in protest?

"But he also noted “different ways of imposing bans or restrictions on vaccines/medicines,” backtracking from his original unequivocal accusation in favor of a more muddled complaint."

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-hits-out-at-eu-over-claim-it-has-banned-vaccine-exports/

The UK and EU didn't invent or produce anything. If AZ didn't agree to Oxford's terms, Oxford would have chosen someone else to work with.

That bolded part is factually wrong. Over half the doses of the AstraZeneca Vaccine are produced outside of the UK in Belgium and the Netherlands. The Belgian production partner, Novastep, is actually responsible for some of the production delays as it's yields are lower than expected.

Also, if AZ wouldn't have agreed, someone else would have been chosen... but who else in the UK would be big enough and and have the necessary facilities to produce the vaccine en masse? Maybe then they would have needed to choose an European company with no ties in the UK and those wouldn't have sent 9M+ doses to the UK. You present it as if it wouldn't have changed anything, but for the UK, chances would have been that the outcome of a deal with another company would have been much worse for the UK.