Israel may have achieved herd immunity against Covid-19
Considering how well Israel dealt with vaccine procurement it is even more mind boggling how the EU Comission botched theirs. Not only they paid for the vaccine research upfront with no guarantees of preferential delivery, they also haggled ferociously for every last eurocent of per dose discount allowing the manufacturers to say &quot;Fine, we&#x27;ll give you a cheap unit price, but our delivery schedule is going to be on an &#x27;best effort&#x27; basis&quot;. So EU is saving few euro per dose, but loosing tens of billions during extended lock downs.<p>Then to add insult to injury few weeks after &quot;all countries agreed to negotiate with the manufacturers together in solidarity&quot; Germany openly said they will attempt to procure the vaccine by themselves in direct competition with the rest of EU. Guess who was leading the common procurement scheme? German politicians of course. Not a peep of disapproval was heard from the EU Commission... It would be funny if it wasn&#x27;t so sad.<p>Don&#x27;t even get me started on Germany announcing &quot;the start of talks to sort out the procurement of Russian Sputnik V Vaccine&quot; a day after all media report Putin is moving his military to set up to increase hostilities with Ukraine.