https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer%E2%80%93BioNTech_COVID-...
1. Planners are penny-wise, and pound foolish.
2. Everyone's just blindly hoping that we won't have to repeat the quarantine-wait-a-year-and-a-half-for-vaccines for the inevitable tide of COVID-19 variants, that will be evolving in the world's unvaccinated populations.
Look, the people who should have been sorting out vaccines were running around like headless chickens trying to deal with a global pandemic.
Nobody has experience with this, and pretty much all Western governments thought they were done post June 2020, which clearly wasn't the case.
They focused on other things (and there were lots of other things to focus on), and it's caused massive problems now.
I completely agree that we should have built more manufacturing, but we didn't know which vaccines would work at the time.
To be honest, the only people who could have actually made this happen was the US Federal Government in 2020, and they were focused on different things.
And have you offered to supply your government with all your vast supply chain knowledge? This stuff is complicated, and one link in the chain failing reduces all capacity.
I'm also super disappointed at the lack of ambition, to be honest (every human should be vaccinated by EOY if we actually want this to be done), but given my experience running much smaller scale logistics, I'm amazed we've done as well as we have.
As I note above, the US Feds could definitely have done better, as could the EU, but there's a sense of deference to private providers which I find unwarranted, and which could be the cause of the slowness.
There was lots of talk about cronyism when Kate Bingham was appointed to run the vaccine task force but taking bets and investing early even when outcomes weren't know is one thing the UK seems to have done well in the last year
https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2021/02/07/news/kate_bingh...