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Re:EU rebuffs UK calls to ship AstraZeneca Covid vaccines fr... by mytailorisrich on Monday March 22, 2021 @09:43AM (#26540668)
The EU is not naive.

The list of bad decisions goes on and on. Face masks, open borders, vaccine development, suspension of AZ vaccine, etc. This is bad management and probably dangerous political games.

Now, the UK did not do much better but at least they did manage to develop a vaccine (which is sold at cost) and to understand that vaccination had to happen early and as fast as possible and they went all in (800k+ injections just yesterday).

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Re:EU rebuffs UK calls to ship AstraZeneca Covid vaccines fr... by dgellow on Monday March 22, 2021 @09:53AM (#26540781)
The EU itself doesn't manage the reaction to the pandemic, it's up to each country. And as you can see European countries reacted differently and have vastly different results.
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Re:EU rebuffs UK calls to ship AstraZeneca Covid vaccines fr... by mytailorisrich on Monday March 22, 2021 @09:56AM (#26540811)
The EU has been put in charge of vaccine procurement and there is a lot of coordination between countries.

When I say "the EU" it means as much the EU as an institution as it means most member states individually.

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Re:EU rebuffs UK calls to ship AstraZeneca Covid vaccines fr... by dgellow on Monday March 22, 2021 @10:11AM (#26541016)
The distinction matters depending on the point being discussed, otherwise the comparison with the UK (or the US) doesn't make that much sense.
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