and if the PM got alternate options, but AZ worked well without the clotting issue, then you'd be saying why the PM waste money on getting all these alternate options when we got AZ which we can make here ourselves.
Welcome to AFF.Almost every post here is conjectureJust saying.
Yeah, you have made it painfully obvious you don’t like Pfizer but that’s not a good enough excuse for what has happened.Pfizer almost certainly will not manufacture their vaccines in Australia.Pfizer's policy is to always manufacture their products themselves.Basically will not give out licences for other companies to manufacture for them.So why would they set up a manufacturing plant in Australia that would take years to build and a total export market of Australia,NZ and Pacific Islands.
Whereas Singapore would see the facility built a lot quicker and convenient to the much larger market of Asia.
Then I came across this article on Pfizer's marketing tactics with their Covid vaccine.
Investigation: Drugmaker ‘bullied’ Latin American nations
According to a UK media group, drugmaker Pfizer held Argentina and Brazil ‘to ransom’ with ‘shocking’ demands.www.aljazeera.com
Another reason why i do not like Pfizer.
Maybe I’m wrong but I thought Pfizer bought a facility in Adelaide ages ago.Pfizer almost certainly will not manufacture their vaccines in Australia.Pfizer's policy is to always manufacture their products themselves.Basically will not give out licences for other companies to manufacture for them.So why would they set up a manufacturing plant in Australia that would take years to build and a total export market of Australia,NZ and Pacific Islands.
Whereas Singapore would see the facility built a lot quicker and convenient to the much larger market of Asia.
Then I came across this article on Pfizer's marketing tactics with their Covid vaccine.
Investigation: Drugmaker ‘bullied’ Latin American nations
According to a UK media group, drugmaker Pfizer held Argentina and Brazil ‘to ransom’ with ‘shocking’ demands.
Another reason why i do not like Pfizer.
As anyone in business will tell you it’s always possible to get options to buy without having to actually but. Yes there is a cost but fairly minimal compared to the costs we are now incurring. So no, I wouldn’t be complaining about what was then and still is now good risk management practice.
All very well in hindsight. At the time Astra Zeneca cost a fraction of Pfizer and we could manufacture it onshore making us independent of crises in other countries. I can see why they went that way.
They did - I know a few people who work there
I think that is a bit harsh. We knew they could punch out a million doses a week. Locally. No international transits. Which would have been gold. Media got in the way along with poor messaging.
Yeah it’s not as if we don’t know that vaccine’s might have health problems - it’s happened plenty of times before, in fact many if not most do. That’s why we have options where we can.
I wasn’t trying to be relevant - just excited
Which backs up what I said.They own their own manufacturing plants.Here is their press release announcing it's purchase.it was a single drug plant.
www.adelaide.edu.au
Astra Zeneca were very moral and ethical and committed to not making a profit out of the pandemic. Pfizer is maximising profit. It’s not a case of who is the best or who is cheap.
We'd all like it to pick up momentum & only seems to when there's a covid case's jump.
You were saying AZ was cheap and inferring cheap meant bad. I was explaining why AZ was cheap - they elected not to make a profit during a pandemic while reserving the right to make a profit later.
Yes, sure - so you are directly stating that Pfizer's goal in this particular context is to profit as much as possible from the misery of the COVID pandemic irrespective how many more deaths such action may incur - and you are OK with that?
