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Re: "Der dritte Mann"

From "Dr. Joachim Neudert" <neudert@5sl.org>
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Subject Re: "Der dritte Mann"
Date 2021-01-27 18:44 +0100
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/27/european-union-slow-covid-vaccination-programme

Why has the EU been so slow to roll out a Covid vaccination programme?
Guntram Wolff 1h ago

For the European Union, the rapid rollout of Covid-19 vaccines is 
critical to save lives and prevent health services from being stretched 
beyond their limits, not to mention minimising the massive economic 
damage from lockdowns. Unfortunately, however, though vaccinations are 
under way, a rapid near-term increase in infections is likely as the 
British variant of the virus spreads across the continent.

The problem for the EU is compounded because its vaccination programme 
already trails Israel, the UK and the US. The best performing EU 
country, Denmark, has vaccinated a meagre 3.6 people per 100, compared 
with 45 in Israel and more than 10 in the UK. Germany and France are 
even further behind. More worryingly, there are no signs that the 
vaccination rate in the EU is accelerating, unlike in the UK and US, 
where daily vaccination rates have increased substantially in the past 
few weeks.

The European commission and European leaders have recognised the need 
for rapid action. The commission intends to have 80% of those over 80 
and the same percentage of health workers in the EU vaccinated by March, 
with 70% of the adult population vaccinated by the summer. Acceleration 
of the vaccination campaign is now the EU’s number one priority.

Why is the EU lagging behind? The central issue is not so much the 
organisational issues, but the lack of vaccines. Even Denmark has had to 
slow down its campaign significantly because of short supply. Many 
countries now report fully operational vaccine centres but insufficient 
vaccines. As always in such complex issues, there is no single answer as 
to why this is happening.

Part of the explanation is that the EU ordered too few vaccines too 
late. It was slow to order the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, even when it 
became the frontrunner and its efficacy had been documented. Member 
states hesitated to ask the EU to order more because of the novelty of 
the technological approach, and the commission leadership did not push 
hard enough for additional purchases.

Purchases were slowed down further as the EU insisted that liability in 
case of negative side-effects on health remains with pharma companies 
and therefore rejected early emergency authorisation. Many EU countries 
neither wanted nor asked for faster authorisation because of this 
liability issue. Pros and cons can be debated, but risk aversion in many 
EU countries is a fact. Anti-vaccination movements may have also added 
pressure on political decision-makers.

EU funding has also proven insufficient. Last year’s EU vaccine strategy 
allocated €2.7bn for advance purchase agreements, research and capacity. 
This was increased by €1.09bn in September. But these numbers are small 
compared with the $18bn the US provided through its “Operation Warp 
Speed”. Low EU purchase prices per vaccine might have further slowed 
down deliveries.

In recent days, there has been a debate about whether some pharma 
companies have breached the terms of the contracts with the EU. The EU 
has pre-financed the development and the production of the AstraZeneca 
vaccine and wants to now know exactly which doses have been produced and 
where, so it can assess whether contractual obligations are breached. An 
export transparency mechanism is being used as a threat to ensure that 
contractual obligations are fulfilled in case of breach of the contract. 
But AstraZeneca’s CEO has pointed out that the UK signed its contract 
three months before the EU and the UK factory also started operating 
earlier, increasing supply capacity. Moreover, according to AstraZeneca, 
its contract with the EU does not oblige early deliveries. Only 
publication of the contract can allow outsiders to judge this spat.

There is an argument that the EU was slow to develop an industrial 
strategy to increase production. The factories of competitors should 
have been mobilised as soon as possible to increase the total supply of 
vaccines. Sanofi has now agreed to use its factory in Frankfurt to 
produce additional Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines. The former Novartis factory 
in Marburg, Germany, will soon produce vaccines in large amounts. Why 
did governments not push earlier for more such agreements and increase 
financial resources to make them profitable for companies?

Last, the EU was not prepared for the pandemic. Only once it was under 
way did EU countries authorise the commission to start joint purchases. 
The US had institutions such as the Biomedical Advanced Research and 
Development Authority supporting research as early as February 2020. 
Building a racing machine only when the race has started means delays.

It is impossible to say how things would have gone if there had not been 
joint EU action. It seems safe to say that many EU countries would not 
have been able to negotiate faster vaccine deliveries with pharma 
companies. It also seems fair to say that the pressure from the Trump 
administration on pharma companies to deliver for the US market first 
was huge and EU countries individually would have had less leverage. 
Moreover, the politics of vaccine nationalism within the EU would have 
been toxic.

But the EU must now learn lessons. It needs institutions comparable with 
those of the US to deal with such situations. The commission’s 
initiative to boost the European Health Emergency Response Authority is 
to be supported. EU citizens should decide how much risk they are 
willing to take when it comes to vaccine authorisation and liability, 
and leaders should provide more financing for vaccine development and 
procurement. For now, the EU’s priority must be to mobilise all 
financial and political resources to increase vaccine supplies.

• Guntram Wolff is director of the Brussels-based Bruegel thinktank

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