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Why are countries that are home to the world's largest concentration of vaccine production among the last to get vaccines? My answer had been "because they struck contracts last," which is true. But @spignal asked why they (or rather EU) did that -- and the answer's interesting https://twitter.com/spignal/status/1356573189309149185
(Again, the claim that "domestic production capacity" confers some vaccination advantage to countries that have it is contradicted by everything that's happened in the last six months...what this shows is needed is a regulatory system that can be overridden politically in crisis)
Of course, EU is now under pressure from member countries to order manufacturers to break contracts and instead favour countries that are home to vaccine manufacturing. This would be most unwise but as you can see it's an issue in non-manufacturing states https://twitter.com/paulvieira/status/1356644777471733761?s=20
Anyway, Canada is now setting up to make vaccines domestically in a state-run facility; it appears that this will have little or no effect on availability of vaccines in Canada. They're not the only product in which "make it locally" is not the best option https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/vaccines-canada-production-trudeau-1.5897343
