CV and mad panic behaviour

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Interesting article on the FB group “Blocked by Pete Evans” this morning on the issue of the drug companies seeking to profit and the first world governments prepurchasing a massive stockpile of vaccine at the expense of poorer countries.
I think the gist was that Australia has in excess of 100m doses, whereas the Philippines has enough for 1.5% of their population...

https://www.facebook.com/150861886940088...163197672/

Just addressing more Facebook rubbish, things so easily debunked.

Australia has ordered just enough to vaccinate everyone in the country if everyone wanted it, two doses per person that is about 50m.

But it hasn't even been delivered or manufactured yet, so that also shows the idea of stockpiling is just rubbish.

What Western Governments are doing is guaranteeing to manufacturers is that if they setup locally to make the vaccine then they will buy a certain amount of vaccine to cover the setup costs. So at this stage the Aust Government has agreed to purchase up to 50m doses from four potential suppliers, but the UoQ is already out of the race so now that is back to Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca.

The excess doses of that guaranteed purchase of vaccine will be donated to countries that cannot afford to make their own, and in fact Australia is the leader in calling for this to happen! But perhaps Philippines isn't likely to be one of them, as it is easily populous and wealthy enough to make it's own vaccine. However small and poor countries like Fiji, PNG, Cooke Islands, Myanmar, Haiti, Sri Lanka and other poor Pacific Island, Sth American or African states are likely to be recipients.

It's a bit ironic for some on Facebook to claim this is inhumane, it exposes an anti-vaccination position, or vested interests!