I'll just note that without any factories of their own, Israel managed to get more vaccines than any other country.
As I understand it, because they were ready to pay whatever it costs. Which, if you look at the numbers, is not much at all.
As I understand it, because they were ready to pay whatever it costs. Which, if you look at the numbers, is not much at all.
That particular cost wasn't financial though. It was a promise to fast track rollout where other countries wanted to go through lengthy approval and review processes (I am not saying lengthy == bad in that case), vaccinate their population as fast as possible and share data about efficacy with the manufacturers. The Israeali government was ready to take risks that many other countries weren't.
I found an article confirming this. Though it also says
> "Israel paid about $30 per dose, almost double what other nations did"
I'm always shocked by how little money that is. $3000 per dose would be cheap!!!
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/01/05/the-secre...
So far the US has spent $5300B on Covid relief packages. That's around $15,000 per American.
If a vaccine dose can save $15,000, $30 is absurdly cheap. $3000 would be an incredible bargain!
This is also why the EU haggling over a few dollars per dose looks so insane to those who have done the math.
Maybe it's late with vaccines but the same principle applies to carbon. Set a $200 carbon price and private enterprise would go crazy with plans to take advantage.
>Under Bingham’s direction, the taskforce helped the Government to secure agreements to have access to six different vaccines across four different formats, amounting to 357 million doses – without being certain any of them would work. Spending £1 billion up front, it could not have been a bigger gamble.
Whereas the EU didn't do that. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/work/kate-bingham-exclusiv...
I don't think I understand what you are trying to say.
Having a population of 8M helps a lot.
If Israel (or the UAE) had a population of 350M - they would not be even close to 100% vaccinated.
The problem there has been getting enough doses delivered.