Was around many who had their series
Work encouraged not mandatory
Ever noticed after plane trips feeling slightly out of sorts for a few hours?
This same feeling/reaction when around them
Felt like onset of flu but lapsed after a few hours
She tied Europe to Pfizer, their darling in political office
https://www.euronews.com/health/2024/05/17/how-the-love-story-between-von-der-leyen-and-pfizer-turned-sour
It was love at first sight. The COVID-19 vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer was the first to receive EU authorisation back in December 2020, but an advance purchase agreement had been signed a month earlier for an initial batch of 200 million doses.
Pfizer offered a shoulder to cry on at a delicate moment for Europe when the other main vaccine manufacturer AstraZeneca was struggling to commit to its contractual agreements – amid suspicions it was prioritising deliveries to the UK.
Negotiating purchases on behalf of member states, von der Leyen found in Pfizer everything AstraZeneca was unable to offer in terms of trust and reliability.
Further contracts with Pfizer swiftly followed, in March and May 2021, securing in total €2.4 bn's worth of vaccine doses, with an option to purchase an additional 900 million doses – a major route to exit the pandemic.
All was going smoothly, indeed in April 2021 von der Leyen even went to visit Pfizer’s manufacturing ‘home’, in Puurs, Belgium, from where she heralded the target to vaccinate most of Europe’s adult population by the end of that Summer.
But the blossoming romance was about to take a bad turn.
Generic enough but a deal is afoot
https://pharmaphorum.com/news/re-elected-von-der-leyen-pledges-eu-measures-biotech
Among promises to stick to climate targets, launch common defence projects, strengthen the EU's borders, continue support for Ukraine, and end the bloodshed in Gaza was a proposal for a new European Biotech Act in 2025 that will lay out a framework for supporting the life sciences sector.
The aim of the act will be to simplify the regulations governing biotech companies and projects, viewed as an impediment to investment in the EU. It will also improve access to financing for start-ups, with von der Leyen remarking that innovative European companies should not have to look to the US or Asia to finance growth – and will make it easier to move and scale up discoveries from research to market.
Pakistan
Formed 1947 after.india ditched the British
Or did they.
EiC probably has had their fingers in the pie ever since