It was about as grovelling as a letter can get. In June, the health ministers of Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands were forced by their respective chancellors and prime ministers to write to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, apologising for their efforts to buy Covid-19 vaccines on behalf of their health systems.
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Matthew Lynn and David Salisbury, the UK’s former immunisation director, on the vaccine rollout.
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