“LONG COVID”, a collection of debilitating symptoms born of the coronavirus, is a chronic form of the illness, dreaded by patients. The term may also come to describe the progression of the pandemic in Europe. . Given more than 100,000 daily cases of late—and more deaths than in America—a laggardly inoculation schedule risks extending covid’s grip on Europe for several months.
The delay has become a political time-bomb in just about every EU member as lockdowns are tightened . Health professionals are blaming politicians, politicians are blaming each other, and everyone is wondering whether the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm in Brussels, which co-ordinated the procurement of vaccines, has been up to snuff.
Three factors explain Europe’s slow start. The first is that vaccine approvals there took longer. The European Medicines Agency—the EU body in charge of approving drugs for the whole bloc, which as a result of Brexit moved from London to Amsterdam in 2019—has lagged behind its American and British counterparts by several weeks. The EU’s approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine came through on December 22nd, three weeks after Britain’s and ten days after America’s.
The final reason for low vaccination rates has to do with the logistics of getting vaccines into arms. Here, national governments are in full control. Roll-outs designed in the autumn of 2020, when the pandemic appeared to be in abeyance, seem unambitious now that it has endured. Worse, new, faster-spreading variants of the virus have emerged, making the task seem even more urgent.
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The EU ineptitude
Because its mired in bureaucrats inventing jobs for themselves like lice sucking the life blood out of its host but what do I know!
No one has fallen behind Brazil. No one.
For good reason
They have lost trust on their politicians
Duh, less bureaucracy, more nimble. EU must be a nightmare to get things done...
The vaccination programmes are not in the hands of the EU but are organised nationally.
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