EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind

Re:EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind by krzyk on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:09AM (#26551627)

> On the other hand the UK still has a fully nationalised health service which means that it was in a much better position to be able to scale the vaccinations. That's probably the real reason that they're ahead.

EU doesn't have problems with vaccination but with supply of vaccines, we use up all we can get (at least until AZ issues, now people are afraid to vaccinate with it).

There are many (all?) countries in EU that have health service nationalised in EU. The only country I know that doesn't is US.

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Re:EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind by hef19898 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @03:23AM (#26552044)

Public Health care =/= nationalized health service

e.g. germany is holding up a ton of vaccines for the second shot right now, so no, we are not using everything we have. Supply is one thing, distribution is another. And the EU has trouble sorting out the latter, a problem that will hurt even when supply increases to a point were there will be more doses than needed around June/July.

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Re:EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind by krzyk on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @05:07PM (#26560408)

I'm genuinely curious what's the difference between public and nationalized health service? Nationalized for me means that something is owned by state (and for me it is the same as public).

(You are right I forgot about second dozes, but I think that's a good thing considering manufacturers are not supplying us on schedule - and some stupid countries - like mine - use up all vaccines and hope that there will be a second doze in 6 weeks).

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