The European Union is getting good at adapting to unprecedented circumstances. Over the last five years, the 27 member countries have pulled together to fund the purchase of tens of millions of vaccines and devised a massive recovery fund to resuscitate economies ravaged by the pandemic.
Did Europe not provide COVID vaccines to their citizens? Even in the healthcare hell that is the US the vaccines were free.
They also needed to provide COVID vaccines to those countries that couldn’t afford to buy them themselves in order to successfully eradicate it.
But they couldn’t do that because it would look bad with the voters if there weren’t enough vaccines to use at home.
This, plus, the vaccines were mostly developed with public money/university grants, but for the last 10-20% companies took the rights, made it for-profit and put it under patent to prevent the world from gaining immunity.
The example of the polio vaccine should be standard procedure