Ah, I remember some controversy over a minuscule blood clot risk and it getting paused in some Euro countries or something like that too.
I remember it being somewhat less effective (not sure how much offhand), but if it had been publicly available to begin with that still would have been much more than anything else the West has done to help globally.
Also yeah I saw that “poorer countries can’t be trusted to make their own vaccine” bullshit argument from libs so much awhile back. Shit was infuriating.
It's infuriating because South Africa, and other African countries, are opening MRNA vaccine manufacturing plants right now. More complex manufacturing than the AstraZeneca vaccine. Probably to only export the vaccines under some messed up deal.
But noo we're too broke to do it when it's for free, but when they can get something out of it suddenly we have the facilities.
Ah, I remember some controversy over a minuscule blood clot risk and it getting paused in some Euro countries or something like that too.
I remember it being somewhat less effective (not sure how much offhand), but if it had been publicly available to begin with that still would have been much more than anything else the West has done to help globally.
Also yeah I saw that “poorer countries can’t be trusted to make their own vaccine” bullshit argument from libs so much awhile back. Shit was infuriating.
It's infuriating because South Africa, and other African countries, are opening MRNA vaccine manufacturing plants right now. More complex manufacturing than the AstraZeneca vaccine. Probably to only export the vaccines under some messed up deal.
But noo we're too broke to do it when it's for free, but when they can get something out of it suddenly we have the facilities.