12 Apr 2021
Despite fact-checkers insisting the claim was false, 62 per cent of Britons think Brexit helped the nation’s Coronavirus vaccine rollout, with an even stronger majority saying the European Union had been outright hostile to the United Kingdom over vaccine supplies.
Nations worldwide have been locked into efforts to vaccinate their populations against the Covid-19 virus in 2021, the method of moving forwards from widespread and damaging lockdowns world governments decided would be most effective.
Brexit Britain ‘Towering Head and Shoulders’ Above EU on Vaccines https://t.co/43wTtZEiil
There were dire warnings in 2020 that if Britain decided to go ahead with Brexit and attempt to run its own vaccination programme it would find itself getting shots slower and more expensively than the European Union, but the opposite has actually proven to be true. As of Sunday, over 47 per cent of people in the United Kingdom have had a shot of coronavirus vaccine, whereas in Euro
Europeans Becoming Choosy About Which Vaccine They Want
WARSAW, Poland (AP) Many Europeans are desperate for a coronavirus vaccine. But not just any vaccine.
As AstraZeneca shots are rolling out to European Union nations this month, joining the Pfizer and Moderna doses already available, some people are baulking at being offered a vaccine that they perceive – fairly or not – as second-best.
Poland began vaccinating teachers Friday with the AstraZeneca vaccine, and some had misgivings about being put in line for a vaccine they believe is less effective than the others.
Ewelina Jankowska, the director of a primary and high school in Warsaw’s southern Wilanow district, said nobody in her school was enthusiastic about getting the AstraZeneca shot, although many signed up, eager for any protection against a virus that has upended their lives and their students’ schooling.
8 Feb 2021
Ursula von der Leyen has claimed that vaccine development is being treated like a Soviet-era “space race” fueled by confrontational mindsets.
The president of the EU’s powerful executive arm, the European Commission, told students during a webinar organised by Warwick University on Sunday: “Some countries view the search for a vaccine as a race among world powers, like the race for space in the 1960s.”
“This is not a competition between Europeans, Russians, Chinese and Americans this is too serious,” Mrs von der Leyen said, according to
The Times.
The Commission president has come under fire in recent weeks for overseeing the bloc’s vaccine programme failure. The EU27 has inoculated less than four per cent of its populations on average compared to the UK which has given the first dose to 18.4 per cent of Britons. The UK is fourth in the world behind Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and the Seychelles all of which have far smaller populations tha