Redundancy, I assume. If one provider says they can deliver in two months, and one says they can deliver in four months, they order from both, in case something goes wrong with the first batch. Or maybe they ordered from the 4-month people first, then were contacted by the 2-month people.
Figuring the loss will be worth it to get people back to working and buying shit.
Or inefficiency. Ordering anything they can get their hands on, thinking they won't get enough, then ending up with way more than they need. Like when people did a run on stores for toilet paper in the beginning, but on a national level.
Then there's the fallacy of lumping the EU together as one organized entity, when we're more of a squabbling mob of nations shouting over each other and amplifying each other's mistakes.
At least some of those vaccines were ordered as a collective EU plan, although there's other vaccines ordered separately per nation.
EDIT: in fact, I think this graphic is outdated, this article says the EU collective order totals 2.3 billion doses, more than the 1.8 billion listed above. It also says surplus jabs will be distributed to neighbor countries, without mentioning what the timeline will be for those overflow shots.
Redundancy, I assume. If one provider says they can deliver in two months, and one says they can deliver in four months, they order from both, in case something goes wrong with the first batch. Or maybe they ordered from the 4-month people first, then were contacted by the 2-month people.
Figuring the loss will be worth it to get people back to working and buying shit.
Or inefficiency. Ordering anything they can get their hands on, thinking they won't get enough, then ending up with way more than they need. Like when people did a run on stores for toilet paper in the beginning, but on a national level.
Then there's the fallacy of lumping the EU together as one organized entity, when we're more of a squabbling mob of nations shouting over each other and amplifying each other's mistakes.
At least some of those vaccines were ordered as a collective EU plan, although there's other vaccines ordered separately per nation.
EDIT: in fact, I think this graphic is outdated, this article says the EU collective order totals 2.3 billion doses, more than the 1.8 billion listed above. It also says surplus jabs will be distributed to neighbor countries, without mentioning what the timeline will be for those overflow shots.
I admit to having exaggerated to the point of falsehood.
No, you're not that wrong, Hungary and Germany, of all countries, are also ordering vaccines outside of the collective plan.