First mass indoor concert to take place in Liverpool today and tomorrow as a test event!
There will be no social distancing or face coverings required.
Cheers.
I was just trying to get an understanding if that sort of clause being used is generally accepted as legally binding or do courts tend to show favour to the wronged party, or is this just the EU giving it the big’un cause they’ve already copped a smak in the chops?
My guess is that this is the EU trying to test the BRE clause. I think they want a Court to determine what does and does not constitute BRE in the context of vaccine manufacture, production and supply in the midst of a pandemic. Not just for its contract with AstraZeneca but also as pertains all its other APA agreements with other vaccine suppliers. I don’t think the EU has much interest in the outcome of this dispute with AstraZeneca specifically, it’s not going to go forward with AstraZeneca anyway. I suspect that this means that AstraZeneca is an easy target for litigation (because the EU is not concerned about maintaining a contractual relationship for its vaccine) and that the purpose of the litigation is nothing to do with AstraZeneca but is really about setting down a marker as to what BRE means in this context so that it can be applied with more certainty with respect to its other APAs with third parties.
94942 jabs yesterday
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Liverpool, right now!
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Ask a Belgian lawyer.
It’s Belgium.
Also i think the EU’s main gripe legally is the communication stuff, then again I haven’t a clue so will refer you to any Belgian lawyer you can find.
Incidentally, I previously posted analysis from other leading lawyers, including Belgian ones, and they all agreed with me.
I guess their kids have more maturity and sensibility.
Update:
Fuck me…
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Take care of yourself.
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Was it your first dose?
I had a blinding ‘hangover’ type headache but cured it with paracetamol…
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April 30, 202112:04 PM BST
Healthcare & PharmaceuticalsNo regrets: AstraZeneca’s Soriot defends COVID-19 vaccine supply
Pascal Soriot, who is under intense fire from the European Union over the delivery of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccines, said on Friday the drugmaker he runs had not overpromised on the supply of shots.
The European Commission has launched legal proceedings against the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker, alleging that it did not respect its contract or have a “reliable” plan to ensure timely deliveries of coronavirus shots. read more
AstraZeneca’s chief executive Soriot said it did its best to deliver as many doses as possible to the EU, and while disappointed not to have delivered more, he was proud of the company’s work and was “totally committed” to increasing supply.
“We never overpromised, we communicated what we thought we would achieve at the time,” Soriot told a media briefing, adding that AstraZeneca will have delivered 50 million doses to the EU by the end of April.
Asked if he agreed that AstraZeneca had not overpromised, Irish Health Minister Stephen Donnelly told national broadcaster RTE: “Not for a second. No, absolutely not.”
“They made very clear commitments, they have failed to deliver on those commitments and that’s one of the reasons Ireland has joined the EU Commission legal case,” he said.
AstraZeneca, which had delivered only a quarter of what it had committed to the EU by the end of March, has said it plans to ship a total of 100 million doses to the bloc by the end of June, far below the 300 million foreseen in the contract.
So far, 300 million doses of the shot had been made available in 165 countries, the drugmaker said.
VACCINE VACUUM
When AstraZeneca agreed to work with Oxford University on its COVID-19 vaccine a year ago it “never pretended that we were going to be perfect”, Soriot said.
Soriot contrasted AstraZeneca’s experience with the more than 100 COVID-19 vaccine candidates listed as under development last year. Only a handful are being rolled out.
“Where are all those vaccines? They are nowhere,” he said.
And the CEO also pointed to the situation in India, which is experiencing a devastating wave of COVID-19 infections, where AstraZeneca’s vaccine makes up 90% of the shots available.
“Imagine without our vaccine what India would look like. Imagine if we had not stepped up, imagine if we had said no.”
“We don’t regret anything because … we have made an enormous difference,” Soriot said.
Yep. Feel a lot better now. Just nausea, headache and a strange urge to buy Microsoft products.
But last night. Holy shit. At one point I genuinely thought I was going to die. I don’t think I’ve felt as bad as that. Mrs Mascot was fine.
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Okay, that was good. In fact you having side-effects is also good.
When is your second dose?
Got my second dose in mid July. According to the nurse I spoke to AZ second dose tends to be very mild. Pfizer second dose is the bad one.
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94.547 over here.