U.S. plans to send 1.5M doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to Canada: Reuters
ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/u-s-plans-to-se...Posted Mar 18, 2021, 5:04 PM UTC
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The Biden administration has come under pressure from allies worldwide to share vaccine, particularly from AstraZeneca, which is authorized for use in other countries but not yet in the United States. AstraZeneca has millions of doses made in a U.S. facility, and has said that it would have 30 million shots ready at the beginning of April.
Definitely takes a bit of shine off the deal when it turns out these things are collecting dust in a warehouse. Its hard to blame the Biden admin because trump didn't have any plan whatsoever and delayed the transfer of information to Biden's team.
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As trendy as it is to blame everything on Trump, AstraZeneca has not applied to the FDA to be approved because they are still doing phase III trials in the USA.
This has nothing to do with Cheeto Jesus.
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Eh, the way I see it, things would be going faster in the Biden admin if they didn't need to start from scratch and clean up a bunch of messes.
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In general, yes.
In the case of this particular vaccine, that has nothing to do with it.
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So you don't think their staff would have had more time to deal with situations like this one had the trump admin done their job?
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This appears to be more about AstraZeneca having pending contracts with other countries and not being able to take payment because the US Gov't under Trump didn't want to ship ANY vaccines outside of the US.
But hey ... regardless of the reason Canada is getting more vaccines and now has the ability to speed up the timeline. Everything's coming up Milhouse!
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Wonder if it's also expiring soon. Still, good news nonetheless.
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This is great news