How to convince Europe that the AstraZeneca vaccine is safe
Europeans have had a very tough time with the coronavirus—physically, economically, but also psychologically.
After China, Europe quickly became the hotspot of the pandemic in early 2020, and hasn’t fully recovered since. More than 43 million people in the region are confirmed to have had Covid-19—the real number is likely much higher—and 940,000 people have died. Europe’s economic recovery is lagging behind, while protests against lockdown measures are becoming more frequent and more violent.
And now, its vaccine rollout is off to a slow and messy start, with only 60 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines administered in the 30 countries of the European Economic Area, compared to 31 million just in the UK.
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