Part of the reason the US did well compared to other countries is that they defected and banned exports. US policy that slowed down vaccination in other countries shouldn’t be counted in favor of US leadership.
EU policy was really horribe. There’s a general believe among EU leaders that they are not supposed to pay as high of a price for drugs as the US does. As a result they negotiated companies down and made their purchase orders to late. European laws often produce stronger regulation then US laws.
Russia is a sad story. Their policy of both developing a more sophisticated adenovirus vaccine (first and second doses use different adenovirus strains—which means less adverse reactions on the second dose) then the Oxford vaccine and being first to market registering the vaccine early. On the other hand the Russian public doesn’t believe the Russian government is good at providing a safe vaccine so despite the vaccine being available to everyone they have low vaccination rates.
I’m disappointed in China. I would have expected the Chinese to ignore the bioethics people, do human challenge trials and bring a vaccine to market relatively soon.
When it comes to Isreal and the United Arab Emirates, it’s worth noting that cooperation on vaccines was part of their peace deal.
I agree that the export ban is not cooperative policy, but I’m unclear if it has an effect. If the US is banning exports of vaccines, but also paying more for vaccines than the EU, it seems unlikely that vaccines will be exported from the US to the EU anyway?
Part of the reason the US did well compared to other countries is that they defected and banned exports. US policy that slowed down vaccination in other countries shouldn’t be counted in favor of US leadership.
EU policy was really horribe. There’s a general believe among EU leaders that they are not supposed to pay as high of a price for drugs as the US does. As a result they negotiated companies down and made their purchase orders to late. European laws often produce stronger regulation then US laws.
Russia is a sad story. Their policy of both developing a more sophisticated adenovirus vaccine (first and second doses use different adenovirus strains—which means less adverse reactions on the second dose) then the Oxford vaccine and being first to market registering the vaccine early. On the other hand the Russian public doesn’t believe the Russian government is good at providing a safe vaccine so despite the vaccine being available to everyone they have low vaccination rates.
I’m disappointed in China. I would have expected the Chinese to ignore the bioethics people, do human challenge trials and bring a vaccine to market relatively soon.
When it comes to Isreal and the United Arab Emirates, it’s worth noting that cooperation on vaccines was part of their peace deal.
I agree that the export ban is not cooperative policy, but I’m unclear if it has an effect. If the US is banning exports of vaccines, but also paying more for vaccines than the EU, it seems unlikely that vaccines will be exported from the US to the EU anyway?
This (US export ban) is news to me. Can you link to a source for that?
https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-with-covid-vaccines-joe-biden-keeps-america-first-stance/a-56483371 is an article that discusses it. Trump created the export controls and Biden is continuing them.