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Is that why France asked the US to drop the export ban ? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57039362

The US did ban exports. There is no law that says that exports are banned, but the US made sure no one else could buy vaccines made in the US.

It's also completely false that every other country did that. As a Canadian I remember very vividly the EU allowing us to buy their vaccines and us receiving them while multiple large EU countries had less than 10% vaccination rate.

Equally, China exported millions of doses when their vaccination rates were in the single digits.

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> Is that why France asked the US to drop the export ban ? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57039362

Macron was trying to deflect blame to the US because his constituents were angry that his administration didn't secure doses. The US didn't do anything "to make sure no one else could buy vaccines made in the US" except to buy the supply.

> It's also completely false that every other country did that. As a Canadian I remember very vividly the EU allowing us to buy their vaccines and us receiving them while multiple large EU countries had less than 10% vaccination rate.

My claim was "all countries prioritized vaccinating their own citizens before donating", and yes, that is true. Moreover, again, the US didn't do anything to stop sales of domestically produced vaccines. At this point, you're willfully repeating misinformation.

> Equally, China exported millions of doses when their vaccination rates were in the single digits.

Again, you're conflating exports and donations.

Macron was not deflecting blame. France could not procure doses from the US, while the EU was allowing other countries to procure doses.

The US objectively prevented the sale of US produced vaccines. No country in the world has been able to do so and many tried. Something in the US prevented other countri s from buying us made vaccines.

I'm not contacting exports and donations at all. I'm comparing doses supplied to doses supplied.

You haven't offered any evidence that the US prevented sale of US produced vaccines except "Macron said so". This has been debunked thoroughly. You're deliberately repeating misinformation, so I don't think you're having a good faith conversation and thus I'm ducking out of this conversation. Have a good day.

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