How EU Tripped in Covid-19 Vaccine Race: The bloc wanted to teach the world a lesson in solidarity, but ended with delayed rollouts, export controls and political acrimony. With @laurnorman via @WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-europe-tripped-in-covid-19-vaccine-race-11612293218
The EU was late in ordering vaccines compared with the U.S. and the U.K.; it bet on companies that have yet to deliver; and when delays started creeping in, it blamed the manufacturers instead of restarting talks https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-europe-tripped-in-covid-19-vaccine-race-11612293218?st=8grot87al0lkg01&reflink=article_copyURL_share
Voters are growing impatient with EU’s vaccination efforts, adding pressure on govern-ments already made unpopular by a year of on-again, off-again lockdowns, a stubborn infection surge and the daily litany of thousands of deaths https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-europe-tripped-in-covid-19-vaccine-race-11612293218?st=tj03mqw1nofzg36&reflink=article_copyURL_share
The EU failed to subsidise vaccine-makers, and approached the talks like trade negotiations: pushing down the price and refusing to take liabilities. The US and the U.K. did the opposite https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-europe-tripped-in-covid-19-vaccine-race-11612293218?st=9t1xylv6q3eljgk&reflink=article_copyURL_share