That gesture of confident camaraderie now feels quaint as EU countries tie themselves in knots over a bungled vaccine rollout. The case, however, becomes a little murkier when other aspects of the EU’s vaccine rollout, which have little to do with exports, are considered. A number of European countries also face much higher levels of vaccine scepticism, feeding the risk-averse regulatory approach. It rests on an understandable exasperation about the state of the vaccine rollout and a sense that Europeans are being played by devious countries. The skittish mood is throwing up many bad ideas about how to speed up the vaccine rollout, and this is spooking people further.

Source: The Guardian March 25, 2021 06:56 UTC