The European Union is getting good at adapting to unprecedented circumstances. Over the last five years, the 27 member countries have pulled together to fund the purchase of tens of millions of vaccines and devised a massive recovery fund to resuscitate economies ravaged by the pandemic.
This, plus, the vaccines were mostly developed with public money/university grants, but for the last 10-20% companies took the rights, made it for-profit and put it under patent to prevent the world from gaining immunity.
The example of the polio vaccine should be standard procedure
If they could read any critcism of Europe/liberalism without treating it as a personal attack, they might understand that we got rid of polio due to a lack of profit from the inventors. COVID will probably never have that until millions more are dead from it.