I suspect that Gates had a long-standing specific plan for manufacturing old-fashioned vaccines, but was unable to pivot to funding new vaccines. It’s a lot harder to spend money to speed up deployment of new technologies, especially at arm’s length.
AZ claims this week that the EU negotiations being delayed for a couple months delayed their factories. Why couldn’t they just start earlier? This is a clear claim that money would have mattered. But maybe there is a lot more to this than physical construction. The EU is currently threatening to confiscate AZ vaccine, so maybe AZ didn’t see any point in building factories in countries that hadn’t pre-paid.
I suspect that Gates had a long-standing specific plan for manufacturing old-fashioned vaccines, but was unable to pivot to funding new vaccines. It’s a lot harder to spend money to speed up deployment of new technologies, especially at arm’s length.
AZ claims this week that the EU negotiations being delayed for a couple months delayed their factories. Why couldn’t they just start earlier? This is a clear claim that money would have mattered. But maybe there is a lot more to this than physical construction. The EU is currently threatening to confiscate AZ vaccine, so maybe AZ didn’t see any point in building factories in countries that hadn’t pre-paid.