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And whoopeeeee!! A vaccine has been authorised for use in the UK. And then the embarrassing politics initially "played out" AGAIN by a non-entity named Matt Hancock who wanted to take Brexit credit on this great first usage by the Brit medical providers. Then Johnson and officials at 10 Downing St "distancing" themselves from this piece of inaccurate self-gratification although the UK Business Sec, Sharma, with quote(part of his statement) - "In years to come, we will remember this moment as the day the UK led humanity's charge against this disease"???? A swift reply made by the German Ambassador to the UK, Andreas Michaelis, rightly asking these Trump-like minions, "Why is it so difficult to recognise this important step forward as a great international effort and success. I really don't think this is a national story. In spite of the German company BioNTech having made a crucial contribution, this is a European and transatlantic initiative - the EU and the US have "ploughed" lots n lots of finance + expertise into this project as well. Of course Michaelis forgot to mention that the people he was criticising are, in fact, political isolationists/populists and indeed very Trump-like in their bogus assertions.