The story behind the AstraZeneca vaccine’s European sojourn has been rife with putdowns, broken promises, rancor and vaccine nationalism.
BARCELONA — Initially hailed as “the vaccine for the world” when it appeared on European shores early this year, the Oxford/AztraZeneca COVID inoculation, which was created in just 65 days at a cost of around $2, far below competing shots made by Pfizer and Moderna, held the promise of turning the tide on the pandemic.
“Such narratives are apparently directed at countries where Russia wants to sell its own vaccine,” EU official Joseph Borrell said in blog post about what he considered to be Russian disinformation.But there were more credible sources of criticism from the start. Dr.
Adding to AstraZeneca’s woes, the company had promised to ship 90 million doses of the vaccine to the EU in the first quarter of 2021, but less than a third of that number showed up. As a result, the continent’s vaccine program for its 445 million citizens looked pathetic, particularly in comparison to the U.K., which appeared to be swimming in the British-made immunization.
That month, health authorities in Denmark, then Norway, followed by Austria in May stopped using AstraZeneca altogether, while those countries that were relying on it continued to experience shortages due to delivery delays; Spain, for one, was forced to temporarily halt its vaccination programs. AstraZeneca revised second-quarter delivery estimates downward from 180 million doses to just 70 million.
On the heels of learning that the EU will now be relying on mRNA vaccine, Pfizer and Moderna both announced price hikes. Asby Financial Times, Pfizer’s price per shot is jumping to around $23 from $18.50, while Moderna’s is increasing to around $25.50 a jab from $22.60. With only 1.1 percent of populations in low-income countries having received at least one shot, the WHO is now calling for vaccinations of “at least 10 percent of the population of every country in the world by September, at least 40 percent by the end of the year, and 70 percent by the middle of next year,” Dr. Siddharta Datta, regional adviser to the WHO/Europe’s Vaccine-Preventable Disease program, told Yahoo News.
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