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It is increasingly clear that the EU vaccine supply problems have bottomed out and that the news will be considerably better going forward. This shifts the "vaccine delivery problem" firmly

What should vaccine transparency in the EU mean in practice and are we too pessimistic about EU vacc plans? ? Thx to @MESandbu I discovered that the health authorities

Peer pressure, the rapid dissemination of "best practices" and "races to the top" is supposed to be among the most important benefits of being a member of the EU -

Time to update Covid vaccination charts. The UK/US way ahead on vaccs, while MT and DK remain best performers in EU. Rollout differences within EU27 remain dramatic - MT/DK>5% vs.

Vaccine shortages are beginning to bite in more and more EU MS, as rollouts are - FINALLY - beginning to pick up speed. @FT tells us that Portugal and France

EU vaccine deliveries appear to be slipping from both @pfizer/@BioNTech_Group and @AstraZeneca, causing supply constraints to begin to bite in more MS. Yet despite increasing vaccination speeds in some MS

@joebiden wants 100mn Americans vaccinated in 100days - that means ~115mn or just over 1/3 of all Americans will have received at least first jab by late April. That frankly

Europe has gotten off to a slow start in its Covid-vaccination program. Reasons are several; 1) Full (not emergency like in UK/US) approval of vaccines takes longer. Decision always debatable,

The lack of EU government preparedness for a "Dunkirk Moment" rollout of vaccines is a scandal. We know that national differences within the EU are large, just at the @NYTimes

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