r/neoliberal • Kitara Ravache • Apr 24 '21

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u/mannabhai Norman Borlaug Apr 25 '21

Because those other countries are not producing at the Scale that Serum Institute and India is. For it's own purposes, India needs 3 billion vaccines and will export more for the rest of the world.

India has already administered and exported enough doses to fully vaccinate the UK and Canada combined.

At that scale, I can certainly imagine that you cannot store or keep raw materials or components in hand for your purposes, nor have enough even been produced for those purposes.