Dutch government now saying first vaccination will be 8 January, with limited rollout from 11th and more locations on 18th. Good news and credit to those getting it done - but still looks painfully slow compared to EU’s announced 28 Dec- and doses limited
https://www.rivm.nl/nieuws/eerste-coronavaccinatie-op-8-januari-2021
. @mattsteinglass may well have been right! https://twitter.com/mattsteinglass/status/1334074577379618821
But to be clear here: a few weeks delay still really matters.
It seems pretty certain that Dutch people will be vaccinated later and slower than (for example) Germans - and some will get badly ill and die as a result. Whatever your politics, that’s a bad failure.
US: three days between regulatory approval and public vaccination

UK: six days (over a weekend)

Netherlands: nearly 2.5 weeks, and almost a month before hitting significant numbers
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