Morning Jolt: European Paranoia Stalls a COVID Vaccine

On the menu today: Europe loses its mind over the AstraZeneca vaccine, allowing us Americans to shake our heads at their primitive superstitions, backwater beliefs, and anti-science attitudes, and wish that they could be as sophisticated and rational as we are; who shouldn't take the vaccine; and a good reminder about how changes in public behavior often precede the advice of public-health experts.

Paranoia Spurs Europe to Stop Using a Perfectly Good Vaccine

AstraZeneca created a vaccine that works and is perfectly safe according to large-scale trials, but nobody can get it, and nobody is using it.

Okay, that's a mild exaggeration; The company plans to ship hundreds of millions of doses of its vaccine to 142 countries in the coming months. Before this recent wave of mostly European suspension of ...

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WITH JIM GERAGHTY March 16 2021 WITH JIM GERAGHTY March 16 2021 European Paranoia Stalls a COVID Vaccine On the menu today: Europe loses its mind over the AstraZeneca vaccine, allowing us Americans to shake our heads at their primitive superstitions, backwater beliefs, and anti-science attitudes, and wish that they could be as sophisticated and rational as we are; who shouldn't take the vaccine; and a good reminder about how changes in public behavior often precede the advice of public-health experts. Paranoia Spurs Europe to Stop Using a Perfectly Good Vaccine AstraZeneca created a vaccine that works and is perfectly safe according to large-scale trials, but nobody can get it, and nobody is using it. Okay, that's a mild exaggeration; The company plans to ship hundreds of millions of doses of its vaccine to 142 countries in the coming months. Before this recent wave of mostly European suspension of ...   READ MORE

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