Episode 16: Vaccine Patents, Tesla's Travails, and the Persistence of Race Science ft. Angela Saini
The Received Wisdom
The Supply Chain Dynamics of the AstraZeneca Vaccine
In the US, we have still not approved the AstraZeneca vaccine. But we have approved three vaccines, Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson and Johnson. And of those three, the Johnson and Johnson has been distributed far less than the others because it's really just been ramping up with some supply chain problems. So in the US context, it's not that big of a problem to suspend use of theJohnson and Johnson vaccine. The problem is different in other countries like Canada where there is much higher use of the Astra Zenec vaccine. It's also an even bigger problem in a lot of low and middle income countries where either they were hoping to use the Astra
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