Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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peteblue said:
oh look...a U.K. company called Croda provides ingredients for the Pfizer vaccine...should someone mention it to VDL
From last December......

”Croda International Plc (“Croda” or “the Group”), the speciality chemical company that uses smart science to create high performance ingredients and technologies that improve lives, today announces that it has recently entered into an agreement with Pfizer Inc. to supply novel excipients used in the manufacture of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate. The contract with Pfizer runs for five years and awards Croda an initial supply contract for four component excipients used in the production of the vaccine candidate for the first three years of the contract. Demand remains subject to relevant approvals.”
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Look what turned up in today’s Telegraph....

“Pfizer has warned the EU to back down from its threat to block vaccines to the UK because the firm needs crucial ingredients shipped from Yorkshire, The Telegraph has learned.

The drugmaker and its partner BioNTech have told Brussels that the UK has the power to retaliate against any export ban by withholding raw materials needed for its jab.

Croda International, a chemicals firm based in Staith, North Yorkshire, has been delivering vital "fatty molecules" to Pfizer's factories in the EU since signing a five-year contract with the firm in November.

Pfizer and BioNtech are understood to have warned EU leaders that production at the main vaccine factory in Belgium could "grind to a halt" within weeks if the UK moved to prevent deliveries from crossing the Channel.”

Up your VDL......
 
peteblue said:
Look what turned up in today’s Telegraph....

“Pfizer has warned the EU to back down from its threat to block vaccines to the UK because the firm needs crucial ingredients shipped from Yorkshire, The Telegraph has learned.

The drugmaker and its partner BioNTech have told Brussels that the UK has the power to retaliate against any export ban by withholding raw materials needed for its jab.

Croda International, a chemicals firm based in Staith, North Yorkshire, has been delivering vital "fatty molecules" to Pfizer's factories in the EU since signing a five-year contract with the firm in November.

Pfizer and BioNtech are understood to have warned EU leaders that production at the main vaccine factory in Belgium could "grind to a halt" within weeks if the UK moved to prevent deliveries from crossing the Channel.”

Up your VDL......
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Great to see the UK flexing its new found superpower muscles.
 
peteblue said:
Look what turned up in today’s Telegraph....

“Pfizer has warned the EU to back down from its threat to block vaccines to the UK because the firm needs crucial ingredients shipped from Yorkshire, The Telegraph has learned.

The drugmaker and its partner BioNTech have told Brussels that the UK has the power to retaliate against any export ban by withholding raw materials needed for its jab.

Croda International, a chemicals firm based in Staith, North Yorkshire, has been delivering vital "fatty molecules" to Pfizer's factories in the EU since signing a five-year contract with the firm in November.

Pfizer and BioNtech are understood to have warned EU leaders that production at the main vaccine factory in Belgium could "grind to a halt" within weeks if the UK moved to prevent deliveries from crossing the Channel.”

Up your VDL......
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It’s cool mate, there is no export ban in the UK! lol
 
peteblue said:
Look what turned up in today’s Telegraph....

“Pfizer has warned the EU to back down from its threat to block vaccines to the UK because the firm needs crucial ingredients shipped from Yorkshire, The Telegraph has learned.

The drugmaker and its partner BioNTech have told Brussels that the UK has the power to retaliate against any export ban by withholding raw materials needed for its jab.

Croda International, a chemicals firm based in Staith, North Yorkshire, has been delivering vital "fatty molecules" to Pfizer's factories in the EU since signing a five-year contract with the firm in November.

Pfizer and BioNtech are understood to have warned EU leaders that production at the main vaccine factory in Belgium could "grind to a halt" within weeks if the UK moved to prevent deliveries from crossing the Channel.”

Up your VDL......
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peteblue said:
But surely France have instructed you it’s only for the over 55’s.....
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They've lost the plot imo
 
peteblue said:
Supply chains are so complicated and integrated there is always recourse if someone plays silly buggers and doesn’t follow contracts...no one is immune from it, not the EU, U.K. or USA.......
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Totally overdoing it mate. I mean there is 27 countries in the EU, what’s in the UK that is not in the EU, the US are pretty much self sufficient, geographically they have to be.

Croda is actually a good example there is literally an A-Z in Europe who do what Croda do https://www.ipec-europe.org/our-members/overview-producers.html
 
Neiler said:
Totally overdoing it mate. I mean there is 27 countries in the EU, what’s in the UK that is not in the EU, the US are pretty much self sufficient, geographically they have to be.

Croda is actually a good example there is literally an A-Z in Europe who do what Croda do https://www.ipec-europe.org/our-members/overview-producers.html
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Yeah but it’s really just four countries and a bunch of piddling non entities though.....Germany are now looking to buy Sputnik V....
 
Don’t know some of the smaller nations do some really impressive stuff at times Malta for example are stalking down the U.K. vaccine numbers.

They should it’s a great vaccine, it’s actually very similar to AZ.
 
I’ve asked this before and can’t remember getting an answer, but why have Russia, the providers of Sputnik V, only given just under 8million vaccines to its population of 145 Million....
 
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