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newyankee
I hope at the least somehow US can export some raw materials to AZN/SII in India to help scale up vaccine production, currently that is a huge bottleneck
freebuju
Double negative. Any help sent to India will be "stuck" in India as far as production of AZ vaccine is concerned.

Vaccine nationalism brought out the worst trait in our fickle species.

HWR_14
As a summary, the various vaccine manufacturers got the federal government to agree not to ship them outside the US as a condition of purchase, because then there would be additional liability issues the manufacturers would be exposed to.

This seems like an easy fix. Coordinate with those other country's governments pass a similar indemnification law for the COVID-19 vaccine and the price for the US organizing that and the other governments doing that will be the manufacturers allowing the US to ship its doses to them.

splithalf
No government would agree to that. Better have your citizens die of covid and blame it on foreign governments than to take all the responsibility yourself while giving outsiders indemnity. Governments have to play politics.
anoncake
This is about indemnifying the manufacturers, exactly what the USA did. Why is it unthinkable for other countries to do the same?
[dead] jukabo
We paid for them
[dead] redis_mlc
Trump was correct that it is the Wuhan flu, that the WHO was involved in a coverup, and that it's pointless to work with them.

But keep repeating the leftist narrative instead of known facts.

gerty
Oh, please, cry me a river. There's always a law to bomb another country, spy on the RoW, hack ally infrastructure, renege international treaties or put on some tariffs on imports from friendly countries, but somehow a minor contractual clause grinds to a halt export of vital medicine supplies during a pandemic.
quickthrowman
There’s a distinction to point out here. US courts enforce contract law, but the international political system is anarchic. Contractual breach cases have a venue willing to hear their case, your examples of actions taken against nation-states by the US government do not.
kgeist
>into the vacuum rushed Russia and China, who began currying favor around the world by distributing their own vaccines—of possibly dubious quality

Oh American arrogance, you can't mention China/Russia without trash-talking them. Trials show the vaccines are safe and effective: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...