Way lander is that man to the in depth stuff - what I know is that you need two shots of it, itās easy to store and distribute and itās cheap as chips
And the EU want our supply
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Fixed. 
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Yeah, itās bad form. Itās one thing to compete for orders, quite another to demand that a private corporation doesnāt honour a sale.
Will all depend on who has the most water tight contractā¦ Also global companies like AZ sell more product at higher prizes in US and EU than in the UKā¦ so its not going to be a matter of who signed first, but a commercial decisionā¦
Iām sure we can tie up the export to the EU in red tape for as long as we want. Seem to be making a good fist of it with our fish.
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Trad vaccine I would take to be killed or weakened virus. The AZ vaccine uses an inactivated chimpanzee adenovirus (cold virus) that delivers a protein sequence of the Coranvirus spike protein. So while is it not as new tech as the mRNA vaccines (Pfizer, Modena) it is certainly not trad.
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I am inclined to think that AZās commercial lawyers are probably sharper than those of the EU. They will have drafted hundredās of ābest effortā supply contracts.
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But its made in 20+ Countries and not sure how much and from where we are expecting our batches
Uhmā¦ not so sure (As a market access consultant 
) The UK is such a crap market given pricing levels and more challenging reimbursement recommendations than the big EU marketsā¦ we may find our supply ādrying upāā¦ in favour of more favourable markets for the rest of there portfolio?
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Before the punchiline, genuine thanks for the info. Your input here has been fascinating.
That said, Iāve just checked potential side effects 
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I doubt that - AZ are supplying at no profit
https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2020/astrazeneca-to-supply-europe-with-up-to-400-million-doses-of-oxford-universitys-vaccine-at-no-profit.html
Read of this what you will
2 factories in the UK have ramped up productons, 2 factoris in Belgium and Netherlands are having āteething issuesā but expect to ramp up production.
The EU want the vaccines that have been made in the UKā¦
Beat you to itā¦
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There is no profit in the AZ vaccine - price may vary slightly due to local costs
The EU have screwed it up - they ordered late, asked if they could have the same roll out as the UK. AZ said we will have a go but no guarantees - hence the best efforts clause
The UK got in first, so we were able to get contractual guarantees
A proper Politician would say yes.
Providing you take some fish with each shipment
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And they havenāt even approved it yetā¦
People often do, @BTripz. Old age.
But yes, file under life imitating art. The new movies are actually a much better fit for this scenario, btw.
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Its what EU technology local tech assessors such as the HAS in France, and IQWIG/ G-BA in Germany etc may do with other productsā¦ its not something that is often talked about but company reputation (and supply chain and fulfilment play a huge role in that) play a big role in access and pricing negotiations ā¦ if AZ ādisappointā the EU, these agencies will rememberā¦ sounds far fetched, but plenty of examplesā¦
Get our 100m sorted and then invite them to have a chat about our access to the financial services markets - they could do it in one of the AZ stock room, surrounded by millions of spare vaccines as a hint