Copium again. This arg, which seems to be the go-to talking point for EU types defending their failure, relies on the idea that supply of the vaccines is fixed. But it isn't. If EU member states had signed earlier contracts, AZ and others would have been able to ramp up earlier https://twitter.com/seanwhelanRTE/status/1355876037096333313

And if they had ramped up earlier, then there would have been more vaccine to distribute. This is the truth the EU is now working hard to bury. Its process was too focussed on cost and liability, and not focussed enough on speed. The Commission failed its citizens.

With regards this claim re earlier contracts would have enabled more supply, see this thread from one of the scientists involved with developing the AZ vaccine production process: https://twitter.com/adamjohnritchie/status/1355136430402580482