almost 50% have had the first dose, is different to halfway done vaccinating the adult population. As I understand the figures, only 2 million have had the second dose.
Personally, as a (broadly) pro-european UK citizen - there's a _moral_ case that, sometime soon, we should make the case for exporting doses now we've covered off the most vulnerable in our own country. A dead person is a dead person.
And I'm _utterly dismayed_ that the EU's behaviour has obliterated any chance of that getting off square 1. Johnson is a populist - any move to restrict contractually-entitled exports by the EU will have the red-top press screaming blue murder and will back him into a corner. I'd fully expect a destructive spiral from there on out - starting with him blocking PZ precursor chemicals being shipped to the EU from Yorkshire. We should be shifting the conversation to "haven't we done well; now is the time to help our friends and neighbors".