On December 21, Ursula von der Leyen was all smiles,
“touched”
.
The green light for a first vaccine against Covid-19 heralded a
“new chapter”
in the European
“success story”
.
A month later, everything has changed.
"Failure", "fiasco", "crash"
and even
"scandal"
, from one end of the Union to the other, anger is brewing and the President of the Commission is called to account for the vaccination campaign.
The violence of the attacks is commensurate with the hope of ending the pandemic.
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Comparisons are painful.
To date, 9.5 out of 100 Americans have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
14 in the UK.
55 in Israel, the world champion.
And only 2.8 inhabitants out of a hundred in the European Union.
Images of small boxes filled with a few flasks, lonely in large freezers that seem very empty, are around the news.
Social networks are overflowing with frustration.
The feeling of scarcity dominates and Europe is paying the price.
From idea to syringe
The great adventure of vaccination
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