I live in Belgium, and what I've read about the situation here (just Belgium tho, not the entirity of Europe I suppose) is just the dumbest most capitalist dumbfuckery I've had the displeasure of reading.
So basically, the government has placed orders with Pfizer for their corona vaccine. They did this with financial guarantees towards Pfizer, which pretty much meant that if Pfizer didn't manage to develop a good vaccine, or if something went wrong during production, the government would essentialy bail them out.
Now, vaccines are being delivered, although at a slower rate than previously expected (but everything getting more fucked up than expected is kind of a given now). The vaccines are being sold to the goverment, priced by Pfizer, and they assumed a vile of the vaccine was good for 5 vaccination doses. Doctors, however, have found that not five, but six (and in some cases even seven!) doses can be garnered from a single file.
Pfizer is now reworking it's price, demanding more money because of the discovery that more doses can be extracted. This of course doesn't really help the vaccination roll out plans.
So yeah fuck a system placing profits over people. But I think we all agree on that here.
Other than that, there's more bullshit going on in Europe but I don't really know what's that all about. So far I'm just trying to do what I can to keep myself and my parents safe.
I live in Belgium, and what I've read about the situation here (just Belgium tho, not the entirity of Europe I suppose) is just the dumbest most capitalist dumbfuckery I've had the displeasure of reading.
So basically, the government has placed orders with Pfizer for their corona vaccine. They did this with financial guarantees towards Pfizer, which pretty much meant that if Pfizer didn't manage to develop a good vaccine, or if something went wrong during production, the government would essentialy bail them out.
Now, vaccines are being delivered, although at a slower rate than previously expected (but everything getting more fucked up than expected is kind of a given now). The vaccines are being sold to the goverment, priced by Pfizer, and they assumed a vile of the vaccine was good for 5 vaccination doses. Doctors, however, have found that not five, but six (and in some cases even seven!) doses can be garnered from a single file.
Pfizer is now reworking it's price, demanding more money because of the discovery that more doses can be extracted. This of course doesn't really help the vaccination roll out plans.
So yeah fuck a system placing profits over people. But I think we all agree on that here.
Other than that, there's more bullshit going on in Europe but I don't really know what's that all about. So far I'm just trying to do what I can to keep myself and my parents safe.