[jfman]

Originally Posted by Pierre

I think it’s a matter of record that thousands of doses of the AZ vaccine, are going unused in Germany/ France and elsewhere.

There’s unused vaccine everywhere, simply because it doesn’t go from plant to arm in a seamless process. They’ve bought and paid for them. For the “strategy” to work it has to be manufactured by but not purchased in favour of other vaccines despite widespread availability.

As vaccine use will be an ongoing process, it makes sense for other developers to try and stall a successful rollout of a dominant product so they get their product out there and try and get a foothold going forward, and be able to say that they don’t have issues and chequered history the AZ product had.

Other developers perhaps, but the accusation was levelled at politicians.

the consumer. If your population refuse to use the AZ vaccine due to discrediting mis-information, well here is a “safe” vaccine backed by the French/German* governments ( *delete as a applicable), manufactured in France/Germany etc.....use this instead.

So we are back at rational capitalists wanting to delay and spend more on vaccines in the long run.

You have a point here. That said even with vaccines , presently, the appetite for coming out of lockdown across europe is still low.

Again this isn’t a rational position for capitalists to hold, regardless of which vaccines are or aren’t available at present.