Vaccine Scorecard Per 100 Residents
- Israel: 111
- UK: 42
- US: 35
- EU: 12
- Canada: 9
Some vaccines require 2 doses some 1. It will take over 100 doses per person unless they are all 1-dose vaccines.
The UK has a superior policy of attempting to get everyone their first shot as quickly as possible.
I bet Canada soon overtakes the EU. Global News reports All Canadians could get 1 dose of COVID-19 vaccine by summer.
Canada has been lagging in its vaccination efforts, thanks in part to lingering production and delivery problems, but those bottlenecks are beginning to clear.
Health Canada says more than 8.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are scheduled to arrive in Canada over the next eight weeks.
Europe’s Gang That Couldn’t Shot Straight
Please consider Europe’s Gang That Couldn’t Shot Straight
It’s hard to think of a recent fiasco that can match the European Union’s Covid vaccine rollout. Protectionism, mercantilism, bureaucratic ineptitude, lack of political accountability, crippling safety-ism—it’s all here.
Mistakes
- Various European regulators and politicians spent this week claiming the Oxford/ AstraZeneca vaccine—the only one currently widely available in the EU—might be unsafe, only to rethink and now beg people to start accepting it.
- Younger teachers and university professors in Italy received jabs ahead of the ill and elderly under a scheme developed when officials claimed the shot wouldn’t work for the old.
- No one seems to be fully in charge of monitoring safety and efficacy. Nominally that’s the EMA’s job, and the agency handled it with typical eurocratic aplomb.
- The EMA’s approval process is more bureaucratic, requiring input from all EU member states. Imagine if the FDA consulted all 50 states.
- EU capitals refused to follow the U.K. in granting emergency-use authorization, apparently for fear of hurting European solidarity.
- Brussels focused on haggling down the cost per dose. Europeans pay a few dollars less per dose but ended near the back of the shipment line.
- The EU response was a combination of threatened export curbs, noisy commercial disputes with pharma companies, and sour-grapes caviling about imaginary efficacy concerns.
The article missed still more bureaucratic boondoggles that I covered previously.
CDU Meltdown in Germany as Merkel Destroyed the Party
I discussed Germany’s Covid handling in CDU Meltdown in Germany as Merkel Destroyed the Party
Merkel was personally behind the decision to shift vaccination procurement to the European Commission, without even considering whether the Commission had the capability to do this effectively. When that failed, the German government declared self-tests to be the royal road out of lockdown. That sounded like a good idea, even to us. As it turned out, the German government has not even bought them yet, because they are still haggling over the price. The lockdown persists because the government failed to order the tests.
Germany is trapped in small print. The lockdown will remain. The Merkel-friendly German media can’t sugar-coat this any longer.
The above two paragraphs from Eurointelligence.
What about Brexit?
Many will point to a UK economic hit due to Brexit. But the EU suffered as well due to its desire to punish the UK for leaving.
Ultimately, trade disruptions are temporary as it is to the advantage of the EU countries to cooperate. That will happen as the current set of politicians sail off into the sunset.
The UK still has the EU as its major trading partner and there are plenty of rough edges, but escape from never-ending bureaucratic boondoggles as well as pressure to join the Euro is permanent.
The Euro is fundamentally flawed as is the Maastricht treaty that requires unanimous consent to do much of anything.
The UK did well to leave.
Mish
“The British press are in very poor taste i wonder at the wisdom of continuously crowing about how many vaccines in the UK etc etc “
Fair comment but there hasn’t been a lot else to crow about over the past year. The Government have taken a lot of stick from many sources, so the press are now pandering to the British audience’s desire for something good that lifts moral.
The British press are in very poor taste i wonder at the wisdom of continuously crowing about how many vaccines in the UK etc etc when the situation is clearly on a knife’s edge in the EU, and looks like the only reason there isn’t a block on the supply chain is a lipid producer happens to be crucial and based in the UK. At some point as we vaccinate the age groups we get low enough that a vaccination to a UK 20 year old would be better served in the 50+ group on the continent although probably impossible for Boris to say that.
I doubt we will be crowing so much if an imported problem comes up and is from a European mutation that had time to get off the ground.
Also, its a bit bldy suspicious that the hardest hit are Westerners and there is virtually no susceptibility in Asian countries. You can check incidence rates in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Japan
Here in Canada, we are fully dependent on other nations for our vaccine supply and it has been up and down at the suppliers whims over the past months. We have only shortened the time to get everyone vaccinated (counting only first dose) by deciding to extend the time between 1st and 2nd dose to 16 wks (4 months). There is no scientific research to back this but it is politically expedient and the Canadian population is mostly docile. In the U.K., they extended second dosing to 12 wks (for the same reason) and there have been scientific experts penning critical articles about how risky that is. In Canada we’ve gone to 16 wks!! They talk about effiicacy because there is evidence that it is good, but they ignore the permanence of the protection aspect and what extending the dose times will do to that (lack of evidence for these longer dosing times).
Also watch for the EU to stop/delay some of our shipments if they continue to stumble.
Proper political accountability doesn’t exist in the EU Commission. They can screw-up, not lose position, still claim salary & maintain pension rights. No one turns up on their doorstep to instill fear.
The “populations” are all very compliant and sheepish and are being treated as they deserve having given their sovereignty over to the EU. Now they get a flavour of what that means and this is just the start. Wait until there is a conflict requiring EU military response and body bags start coming home.
Macron in particular has been very irresponsible. A real knob-head.
Little hope for the French with that one in charge.
It wasn’t really the European populations that gave their sovereignty to the EU, it was their elected political representatives. It all began as “ A Common Market”, which is fine. Then the idealism, bureaucracy and waste took over. It became almost impossible to escape.
Mish, you say the UK did well to leave and you are right. The funny thing is that a lot of people over here are saying the same thing, that the UK was smart enough to get out of a bad marriage. This is much more mainstream than before but the problem is what to replace it with? The bureaucratic sclerosis is evident but there is no obvious way to reform it so it limps along. I live in the EU but I am not a citizen and I do appreciate a lot of things in Europe but honestly this time the EU Commission which is full of highly-qualified experts had no idea on how to tackle the Covid problem and more worrisome is that they still are lost like babes in the woods.
Because there is no consequence to them, no accountability.
No accountability is a problem but not the principle one. Winston Churchill framed the problem eloquently when he said:
“Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of all fears.”
– Winston Churchill
He argued that committees left without strong oversight led to indecision and hesitation, because the members would keep arguing and criticizing various possibilities with each of them finding reasons to advise against something or the other. The EU committee charged with the Covid response is a perfect example of that. Their was no strong leadership. There was no one who said the buck stops here and who would make the hard decisions.
Sounds a lot like the Austin city council.
Consensus is overblown.
The EU are clearly trying to scupper or slow down the UK’s efforts to vaccinate their population because it highlights how poor their own efforts have been. No concern for the actual welfare of anyone. They are desperate to try and make life difficult for UK residents. Fortunately everyone can easily see through it.
Back in February the French said the AstraZeneca vaccine was only safe for the under 65s. A few days ago they said it was only safe for the over 55s. Talk about confusion.
My wife speaks regularly to a friend in Estonia, population around 5 million. They have been trying to get vaccines but the larger European countries are monopolising the supply. She told us Kivioli we’re given only 36 doses. Now like others in Europe they’re just going into lockdown again.
I’ve heard of older british full residents in Spain being denied, private insurance disqualifying. They are short on vaccine so its the expats who are shunned, it’s the sort of thing that makes some locals feel important and gives British diplomats the run around… just to show who’s in charge etc.
Nice!
There are all sorts of info going around, and conflicting advice from different authorities, promises and counter arguments, bureaucratic confusion with some obviously on purpose . So if you read up headlines it all seems positive, read comments and there are people arguing it is not so, read Spanish texts and you even have government sidelining expats, read expat groups and there they are busy trying to pressure to make sure expats are eligible and are sharing what the consulates are experiencing, read local authority guidelines and they are vague in terms of detail. I know older people personally who are full resident and denied vaccine full stop , who are excluded from the rollout where Spanish of their category are being vaccinated. Always the same, they want tourist money but not tourists, they want to make money selling property but complain when prices are high, they welcome British residents and retired but then shun them in practice. There are a lot of good Spanish, but as a whole it’s a real shitshow.
It’s a terrible shame. Rank hypocrisy.
EU values (when it suits) from wiki
Human dignity. Human dignity is inviolable. …
Freedom. Freedom of movement gives citizens the right to move and reside freely within the Union. …
Democracy. The functioning of the EU is founded on representative democracy. …
Equality. Equality is about equal rights for all citizens before the law. …
Rule of law. …
Human rights.
Some vaccines require 2 doses some 1. The doses per 100 citizens does not take this into consideration.
The UK has a superior policy of attempting to get everyone their first shot as quickly as possible.
Depending on the percentage of J&J administered it will take over 100 doses per 100 people.
Mish, you have a typo in this line
It will take over 100 doses per person unless they are all 1-dose vaccines.
It should be
It will take over 1 dose per person unless they are all 1-dose vaccines.
When I booked my first jab I was able to book my second at the same time, it’s booked for 17/5/21, 12 weeks after the first.
All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed (I. F. “Izzy” Stone, 1907-1989), and, The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help (Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004).
I would not consider anything from Vox as credible.
is this a more ‘credible’ source for you? rolls eyes
This is an excellent video. I hope that more people will view this.
I don’t quite get how Israel is vaccinating over 100 people per 100. It sounds like it may be an issue with the Pfizer vaccine requiring two doses but it wasn’t 100% clear. Otherwise there are repeat vaccinations.@Mish do you know the answer for sure?
You sounded eager to get your experimental gene therapy
Some vaccines require 2 doses some 1
11/100 got their second shot ?…..’Pfizer’…. a jewish company helping fellow jews ….
Hardly. Israel cut a deal with Pfizer securing early doses in exchange for giving Pfizer data and making the country a test bed
This is crap!
If only there were a vaccine against white supremacists and anti-Semites … I suppose it would have to be lead-based, as reason-based prototypes have proved completely ineffective.
Some group of people always hates some other group of people for some reason. Been that way since the dawn of time and will be that way till the heat death of the universe. It’s the natural order of competition in nature.
Why ?
guessing this is an excel bug. i used google translate. 9000 Danes weren’t vaccinated because their social security number began with a zero
hmm. the article i included got swallowed up