Plot against AstraZeneca? No | The paper

The hasty and reckless decision by most European states, including Italy, to suspend the AstraZeneca vaccine is fueling a series of retro-thoughts and interpretations that try to explain how such a measure could have been achieved. Since the cases of adverse effects are so rare and not even proven, the reason – or the real reason – that pushed states to such a ban must be another. And the thought obviously went to a kind of “conspiracy” within Big Pharma, or rather a disinformation war between competing pharmaceutical companies to conquer a larger slice of the vaccine market. From this point of view, AstraZeneca would be the company to be killed because it produces an excellent vaccine that is the cheapest (2-3 dollars per dose, compared to 15-20 dollars for Pfizer and Moderna). In the past, the Italian patron of Irbm, who collaborates with AstraZeneca, has also made it clear that many problems could derive from this element: “I suspect this vaccine is annoying because it is too cheap“. In reality this is not the case.