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Key population and assigned quotas that can be summoned: Mathematics would have already regulated the distribution of vaccines in the EU, had it not been for some extremely delinquent providers. Now ten million doses of vaccine have been negotiated.
“It is paradoxical and a bit sad: Chancellor Kurz has now created exactly the bazaar that he originally warned about,” an EU diplomat told the dpa news agency on Thursday. Countries that Austria, Slovenia and the Czech Republic do not really perceive as such and finally the classic bazaar technology finally emerged.
In principle, a bazaar is something that is well regulated. The seller and the buyer discuss the price of a product, you trade, argue, settle, or don’t. Ideally, the wishes and ideas of the supplier and the customer are close to the center. But if a community distributes essential goods, such as vaccines against a pandemic, should there be a haggling over the quantities?
What criteria should be applied?
Ten million cans prematurely available from Biontech / Pfizer had to be redistributed among the 27 EU member states. But how much should countries that lag behind betting on the wrong vaccinated horse for vaccination get? At first it said three million. Now there are 2.85 million. Six countries should benefit first. So the Czech Republic suddenly fell off this list. What standards have been set here? What dates? How far did you look forward? After all, Austria, for example, is likely to lag further behind in the EU vaccination rankings for the next few months, as AstraZeneca can deliver significantly less than budgeted by the Ministry of Health.
Therefore, Austria originally requested more than these 10 million doses than the key population would allow. 400,000 doses of vaccination should help the vaccination plan in the jumps. The 140,000 rumored on Wednesday were very few, there was strong criticism of the first Portuguese distribution proposal. However, the just under 200,000 finally agreed on Thursday night is a “solid” result from the Austrian point of view, which is exactly the number that corresponds to the population key.
Negotiations live off excessive demands. But dealing with the remaining vaccination doses, like in a bazaar, has actually become a “self-fulfilling prophecy”, a “self-fulfilling prophecy” of the Chancellor. A simple and constructive warning that something went wrong with the vaccine calculation in some countries would have been understandable. But the “correction mechanism” then became the “bazaar” itself.
