Is Europe Getting Its COVID Vaccine Rollout Wrong?

Is Europe Getting Its COVID Vaccine Rollout Wrong?

Just days after the Brexit transition period ended at the end of 2020, as the United Kingdom was plunged into an undetermined period of strict national lockdowns, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was keen to deliver some good news - he revealed the U.K. is beating Europe in the global vaccine race.He said at the time that the nation's ambitious vaccine program had seen more people vaccinated in the U.K. "than in the rest of Europe combined" and that Britain was now in a "sprint in a race against the virus" to vaccinate people quicker than COVID is spreading. People around the world are now being vaccinated against COVID-19 thanks to the approval and rollout of Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Moderna jabs. But World Health Organization (WHO) statistics show more than 10,000 people are dying across the globe each day too.More than four million people have been vaccinated against COVID in the U.K., a total number of 4,062,501 have received the first dose, with 452,301 people receiving both doses of the injection between December 8 and January 17.This is more than double the number of vaccinations, per person per day than any European country, the U.K. Department of Health says. Figures show