EU is Taking AstraZeneca to Court Over Vaccine Issues

AstraZeneca has failed to meet vaccine delivery expectations, and the EU isn’t having it.

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A recent FiercePharma article discussed the rocky relationship between the European Union and COVID-19 vaccine developer AstraZeneca. AstraZeneca originally committed to providing Europe with 90 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine in the first three months of 2021. However, the pharma giant failed to get its supply chain up to speed and lowered the projection down to 30 million.

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