The world will remember the selfish behaviour of the US government during this pandemic, from Trump right on through to Biden. https://twitter.com/jfkirkegaard/status/1385528732287442944">https://twitter.com/jfkirkega...
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇺🇸" title="Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten"> is currently sitting on over 100 million unused vaccine doses. An estimated 35-40m are #AstraZeneca, which https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇺🇸" title="Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten"> still hasn& #39;t authorised to use on Americans and probably never will.

It is an absurd situation while half of all doses made in https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇪🇺" title="Flagge der Europäischen Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge der Europäischen Union"> are exported (chart @jfkirkegaard).
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable= is currently sitting on over 100 million unused vaccine doses. An estimated 35-40m are #AstraZeneca, which https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇺🇸" title="Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten"> still hasn& #39;t authorised to use on Americans and probably never will.It is an absurd situation while half of all doses made in https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇪🇺" title="Flagge der Europäischen Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge der Europäischen Union"> are exported (chart @jfkirkegaard)." title="https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇺🇸" title="Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten"> is currently sitting on over 100 million unused vaccine doses. An estimated 35-40m are #AstraZeneca, which https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇺🇸" title="Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten"> still hasn& #39;t authorised to use on Americans and probably never will.It is an absurd situation while half of all doses made in https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇪🇺" title="Flagge der Europäischen Union" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge der Europäischen Union"> are exported (chart @jfkirkegaard)." class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
Anglophone media is mostly silent on this, so Anglosphere outside https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇺🇸" title="Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten"> may forget because they& #39;ll never be told.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇬🇧" title="Flagge des Vereinigten Königreiches" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge des Vereinigten Königreiches"> media even covering small US donations as good news stories.

But I expect anger about US hoarding to increase soon, especially in India. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56824177">https://www.bbc.com/news/worl...
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