I expect that Europe's EU recovery plan will go just as well as their vaccine rollout. After all pre-COVID -- the EU's recovery plans for Greece and other countries worked out so well. European Union approves Covid-19 recovery plan to launch in June https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20210531-european-union-to-launch-covid-19-recovery-plan-in-june EU countries will be able to launch the bloc's coronavirus recovery plan in June after all 27 members approved the scheme, the European Council announced Monday. "The European Union is now able to obtain the necessary funding for the European social and economic recovery," said Antonio Costa, the prime minister of Portugal, which currently chairs the Council. The Commission will now be able to go to the capital markets and borrow the money to finance the plan in the name of the EU members. The EU's landmark 750-billion-euro ($910-billion) recovery plan, known as Next Generation EU, was drawn up in July 2020. But it needed the green light from all 27 member states before the Commission could borrow in the name of the bloc. The landmark fund for the first time creates a pool of common debt -- shared between EU members, to lower borrowing costs for weaker members -- a move that was long opposed by "frugal" northern states. "The governments and national parliaments of the EU 27 have shown a strong sense of solidarity and responsibility," Costa said. "We cannot afford to waste more time," he added. "We must ensure the swift approval of the first recovery and resilience plans by the end of June." Clement Beaune, France's minister for European affairs, told Les Echos newspaper that the EU would start approaching major international and European banks from Tuesday. The parliaments of Austria and Poland were the last to approve the common debt mechanism on Thursday. Spain and Italy, both hit hard by the coronavirus, will be the main beneficiaries of the fund, each receiving nearly 70 billion euros. The money is due to go towards major infrastructure work and environmental projects such as developing the network of recharging stations for electric vehicles. Money has also been set aside to improve high-speed telecommunications and data storage facilities.
The vaccine failures in Europe continue... EU's vaccine failure exposed: Binned AstraZeneca and backed German jab that doesn't work BREXITEER Ben Habib has highlighted the EU's "ineptitude" after the revelation that Germany's much-hyped CureVac coronavirus vaccine is only 47 percent effective - leaving it lagging well behind the UK-developed AstraZeneca jab, which he pointed out the bloc had done its best to "rubbish". https://www.express.co.uk/news/poli...ines-coronavirus-eu-news-poor-results-Germany
As the EU continues to lose its court cases which attempt to force AstraZeneca to break other delivery commitments and send doses to the EU -- which strangely enough the EU does not plan to use at this point. Covid: AstraZeneca says EU loses legal bid for more vaccine supplies by end of June Judge orders delivery of 80 million doses by September after bloc pushed for 120 million by end of June https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/astrazenca-eu-vaccine-supply-b1868514.html
Germany expects faster Moderna COVID-19 vaccine deliveries https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...derna-covid-19-vaccine-deliveries-2021-06-27/ BERLIN, June 27 (Reuters) - Germany expects drugmaker Moderna Inc (MRNA.O) to deliver COVID-19 vaccines faster than expected, helping it ramp up vaccinations in coming months, the health ministry said on Sunday. Moderna will increase its deliveries to 1.33 million doses a week in July from 733,000 previously expected, raising the figure to 2.57 million a week in August and 2.95 million a week in September, the ministry said. Moderna said last week it hopes to be able to deliver the COVID-19 vaccines it has promised to Germany more quickly than originally planned, without giving figures.read more Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Saturday that supply of vaccines in Germany will soon outstrip demand, which will allow it to offer shots to passers-by in city centres or at places of worship. read more The government will deliver an additional 5 million doses of AstraZeneca(AZN.L)vaccine and 1 million from Johnson & Johnson(JNJ.N)to the regions next week, the ministry said. Spahn said on Saturday there were already hundreds of thousands of doses of AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines in Germany that were not immediately being used in doctors' practices. Many Germans favour the vaccine made by Pfizer/ BioNTech.(PFE.N),(22UAy.DE) Germany has now fully vaccinated 35% of its total population, while 53% have had a first shot, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) public health agency reported on Saturday. The total number of coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 538 to 3.727 million on Sunday, while the death toll rose by six to 90,754.
Canada's accelerated vaccine roll out is impressive we are now well ahead of the US on first doses and will probably catch the US on second doses maybe in a month. You are right we need the entire world vaccinated. This is a reality some dumb asses on here ( eg TreeFrogTrader ) never understood. The variants will be a problem for any state or country that fails to get this done quickly; also a nasty surprise it seems for posters like Jem who think this virus was never a real threat to young people.
The EudraVigilance database reports that through June 19, 2021 there are 15,472 deaths and 1,509,266 injuries reported following injections of four experimental COVID-19 shots: COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE MODERNA (CX-024414) COVID-19 MRNA VACCINE PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE ASTRAZENECA (CHADOX1 NCOV-19) COVID-19 VACCINE JANSSEN (AD26.COV2.S) From the total of injuries recorded, half of them (753,657) are serious injuries.
What complete nonsense. Stop posting bullshiat attempting to portray that the COVID vaccines caused thousands of deaths. They have not. European database does not prove the COVID-19 vaccines are lethal https://www.politifact.com/factchec...an-database-does-not-prove-covid-19-vaccines/ The EudraVigilance database itself cautions the information it collects is for "suspected side effects ... but which are not necessarily related to our caused by the medicine." "Information on suspected side effects should not be interpreted as meaning that the medicine or the active substance causes the observed effect or is unsafe to use," EudraVigilance’s website says. "Only a detailed evaluation and scientific assessment of all available data allows for robust conclusions to be drawn on the benefits and risks of a medicine." Taking the raw data of possible COVID-19 vaccination reactions at face value and using them without context is an oft-used tactic by people attempting to undermine public confidence in the vaccines, according to the New York Times. They frequently interpret the numbers from EudraVigilance or from its United States counterpart, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, as evidence of the vaccines’ dangers.
After the EU leadership made all sorts of noise about how terrible the U.S. was not quickly exporting vaccines to developing countries.... we have reached the point where Europe has effectively shipped no vaccines to developing countries and the U.S. has shipped millions of doses to developing countries. Maybe the EU leadership needs to shut their foul mouths when it comes to vaccines. EU shamed as Biden speeds ahead in vaccine exports to Asia months after VDL’s criticism THE European Union is falling behind the US in its supply of vaccine to developing countries, months after Ursula von der Leyen lambasted Joe Biden for the lack of solidarity shown. https://www.express.co.uk/news/worl...n-der-Leyen-Joe-Biden-us-covax-Southeast-Asia
Follow-up on the AstraZeneca EU story... EU and AstraZeneca reach deal to end vaccine row BBC - https://tinyurl.com/3uhynbw2 The EU and UK-Swedish drug-maker AstraZeneca have settled a row over a shortfall in coronavirus vaccines that affected the European rollout earlier this year. AstraZeneca has agreed to deliver 200 million doses of its vaccine, which had been promised under a contract, to the EU by the end of March 2022. The deal puts an end to the EU's pending action in the Belgian courts. The EU said this week that 70% of adults had been double vaccinated. Earlier this year AstraZeneca angered European Commission officials when it said it could only deliver a fraction of the doses agreed for the first three months of 2021. The bitter dispute overshadowed the initial weeks of the vaccine rollout across the EU's 27 countries. The Commission accused the company of breaking an August 2020 advanced purchase deal while AstraZeneca hit back arguing that the contract only required its "best effort" to deliver millions of vaccine doses on time. (More at above url)