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EU Vaccine Rollout: Britain Outpaces Europe When it Comes to COVID Vaccinations – TLDR News

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In December, Britain approved the Pfizer vaccine and began immunising their citizens – the first country in the world to do so. The rest of Europe was slightly behind, with the EU slower to approve any of the vaccines. However, to this day the EU’s vaccine rollout continues to be slow. So in this video we explain why the EU’s still vaccinated fewer people than the UK & what this means for Europe.

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1 – https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1125/pdfs/uksi_20201125_en.pdf
2 – https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-medicines-regulator-gives-approval-for-first-uk-covid-19-vaccine
3 – https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-approval-of-pfizer-biontech-vaccine-for-covid-19/conditions-of-authorisation-for-pfizerbiontech-covid-19-vaccine
4 – https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4759#:~:text=How%20was%20the%20MHRA%20able,October%20and%202%20December%202020.
5 – https://www.politico.eu/article/pressure-mounts-on-eu-regulator-to-approve-coronavirus-vaccine-quickly/
6 – https://www.politico.eu/article/pressure-mounts-on-eu-regulator-to-approve-coronavirus-vaccine-quickly/
7 – https://www.gov.uk/vaccine-damage-payment
8 – https://www.politico.eu/article/biontech-founders-coronavirus-vaccine-shortfall/
9 – https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-covid-vaccinations?tab=chart&stackMode=absolute&time=2021-01-05&country=ARG~CAN~CHN~DNK~DEU~ISR~ITA~MEX~POL~ROU~RUS~SAU~OWID_WRL~ESP~GBR~ARE~USA~FRA&region=World
10 – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/31/covid-france-pandering-to-anti-vaxxers-with-slow-vaccine-rollout
11 – https://www.ft.com/content/b8fae463-91dd-44e3-a6fe-fce5cf8f04c2
12 – https://twitter.com/Jeremy_Hunt/status/1348974365342359552/photo/1
13 – https://www.politico.eu/article/angela-merkel-defends-joint-eu-coronavirus-vaccine-purchase-against-mounting-criticism/
14 – https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/german-grab-threatens-eu-covid-vaccine-scheme-qwj3g3m6r

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@alexdenton5228

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

aged like milk britards 🤣

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@jeansang7923

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

Portugal, France, Italy , Spain Outpace the UK

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@mpstab6276

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

A few months later………can be a long time in vaccination rollout

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@SethTheOrigin

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

This channel is an EU bootlicker account.

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@igorzkoppt

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

Humanity re-learns every few decades that bureaucracy only works on paper.

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@marcusbjernerup7187

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

Time for an update- no? Malta, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Ireland well ahead of the UK, and others will soon follow. It's a marathon, not a sprint.

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@craigholley4614

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

this aged well

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@kavvethehomm3player454

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

well now people are against vaccination in France feels amazing having the protest culture against health and safety…

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@simonhulmesh

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

The EU is killing itself!

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@thomassenbart

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

Bureaucracy and cowardice kill

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@herrnchaos25

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

For short , incompetence and MURICA

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@Leptospirosi

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

7:05 most of the "delay" in Europe vaccination campaign is due to Astra Zeneca being put in "quaranteen" after some suspicious deaths and severe collateral effects. This forced most European countries to relay more on the availability of Pfeizer as Moderna was not available untill recently and Johnson probably not even approved, while Sputnik never got a green light, despite some countries, like "Republic of San Marino" sourcing it.
Obviously as Astra Zeneca is a British company, it was never an option to wait for safety records in the UK and because this was what Europe was doing, the UK suddenly found itself with a lot of doses to vaccinate its own population, while other countries was in cue for Pfeizer and Moderna to fill the gap.
If you check the records of vaccine in UK compared to Europe you will se they were overwhelmly AZ, while the opposite was true for continental Europe.

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@No-timeforimbeciles

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

Line up 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑, get your poison vaccine !

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@adrianrouse5148

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

I think the central purchasing by Brussels hurt the rollout. To many contacts and meetings to be fast. But the disinformation about astra zenica also slowed things down to the degree that vaccines ran out of date. Politics and healthcare should not be mixed

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@yanchen9701

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

Another important fact is that, the UK and USA manufacturer their own vaccine ,while EU relies on the UK and USA’s supply of vaccine, hence, EU certainly needs to wait …

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@orionspero560

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

I think the European Union is generally right I didn't Germany tried corners that are good for Germany at the cost of the EU and I think france absolutely pandered to vaxseen skeptics

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@theelephantintheroom8016

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

Europe supplied Canada at the same time, the u.s told us to f our hat!

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@eukarya_

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

After EU stopped vaccine smuggling to the UK and other countries things have changed.

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@Grey-ub5ds

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

In romania there are 3 millions people so I don t see where is the problem

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@montelatici

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

It is much simpler. The EU exported nearly half of the vaccine produced in the EU to othet countries, including the UK instead of keeping all vaccine produced in the EU for EU member states like the US did.

The difference in approval times had nothing to do with the slower vaccination rate. Had the EU not shown generosity and kept vaccine produced in the EU for itself, like the US did, the UK would have not been able to implement a vaccination program. 66% of the doses used in the UK were exported to the UK from the EU.

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@rocketmars27

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

Can you do an episode of what's happening in Ontario, Canada. The situation is so bad and our premier is doing the bare minimum to help us

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@peterhildebrand4274

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

In Germany we've an advantage as far as the virus is concerned: it looks at the watch – and as soon as it's 21.00 hours: it comes and stayes till 5 in the morning! Unique! And the whole day people are streaming in the streets – and no virus. Because it looks at the watch: "Oh, it's no time yet!" And people believe it! It's absolutely amazing!

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@dariuszdudka1991

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

Well, Pole here. Currently, we have only vaccinated for very two million after two months. This is nearly incomparable to Lithuania, which has only two million but gave nearly one million doses, or Russia which vaccinated for over 15 million, leave alone Britain and USA which surprisingly impressed with the rapid speed of vaccination. The fact that we're even behind Russia and Britain which are not EU members is shocking.

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@breaddboy

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

Honestly prefer the slower response. The vaccine seems to be working in the uk but an almost mandatory vaccination of a pretty tame virus that could mutate and ruin all progress so far seems irresponsible. The vaccine roll out in the uk feels like a propoganda stunt or a cash grab. To me at least.

I'll trust the vaccine when governments I trust begin to widely use them. For anyone under 45 and healthy there's no real risk as far as I've seen, I'd much rather just get natural antibodies. But I doubt they would alow people to intentionally be infected.

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@classesanytime

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

Let me sing it for you!
🎶🎵 Money, money, moooney … Mooooneeey🎵🎶

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@Jackal9405

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

France panders? Since when respecting free will of country's own people became pandering.

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@denishoulan1491

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

And name one country where Covid infections are goin through the roof. That would be France.
Working out well for Macron.

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@fb150185

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

I am really worried of how slow the process in the first world. If wealthy nations are taking this long to get vaccinated. What do I have to look forward to?

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@Michael-wn4jj

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

Well, but british companies are going to lose reputation and trust in Europe. I think it will effect future economic relation.

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@florianettwein6509

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

its just not fair that a german company developed it, a lot of vaccines are produced in the EU and britain is allowed to buy most of it first…

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@notch7139

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

EU have done over 50 millions vaccinations, twice the UK number.

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@Thevoidlezz

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

it simple europe isnt renting out the huge event locations to to mass vaccination but just going by risk group

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@thomaspridmore106

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

Brexit is now paying dividends well done Borris

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@TheMarcosutra

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

I understand that you have to narrow down information to fit into a video but why has the Jeremy Hunt map missing the data for Denmark made the cut? It is completely irrelevent considering you have ommited so many interesting facts that could have been included in this video (for example the list of EU countries that were already negotiating their own vaccine procurement before the EU commission strongarmed them into the EU procurement). Furthermore, it is stupidly hypocritcal to point out a missing data on Jeremy Hunt's map considering half of the charts and diagrams in this video have mistakes….

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@verbekejules

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

Can you make a video about the fact that U.K. and U.S.A keep their manufactured vaccines for themselves, while Europe is responsible for the rest of the world!

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@adrianbollmann2088

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

Watching this one month later, my par3nts das that about 1,6 million people are vaccinated in Germany. Looking at the numbers from the Thumbnail that would mean that 140.000 people have been vaccinated in one month while the US is doing like 2 million a day. A shout out to the government: great job guys! (sarcasm) Living in Germany and trying to get a vaccine sucks.

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@marilynlucero9363

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

6:43 – Little off topic but that face caught me off guard.

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@imperator3515

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

Ummm no, Denmark is clearly a light green in the graph you show not grey. 😐

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@Volheim212

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

I would to some degree say that it is EU fault but their job is mainly to secure vaccine doses. the main problem is the member stats did not have a system in place to rollout large amounts of vaccines like us in Denmark which is a system we have had for a long time to keep track of who needs vaccines and who does not. the rest of EU had not thought that far a head so they had to build up a system to handle these large amounts of vaccines. I personaly believe that vaccines that just set in coolers (like in french) should be given to other countries who is able to give these shots to EU citizens until the countries have a system that can be use to give vaccines in a effiecent way. Like in Denmark we can´t get our hands on enough vaccines!

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@MultiSciGeek

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

We need an United States of Europe. This bureaucratic mess cannot go on.

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@Davo-007

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

2008 Finacial crash with bailouts galore. Now the Pandemic. When will people realise it's not good to be part of this club in a crisis. Given there's going to be a crisis every 10 years or so then WHY BOTHER ??

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@shadowraven4221

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

The UK is like that one kid in class that fails every course but barely passed 1 and then brags about having better points than the rest to dodge a beating from their parents.

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@davidweatherhead1431

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

Maybe it could be the EU have a 🛎 end leader 😂

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@TheSandkastenverbot

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

The UK government is like a broken watch that points to the correct time 2x a day, like when it came to vaccines. At any other time it totally misleads you.

The EU, on the other hand, is like a sun dial. Sometimes you have to wait a couple of days for the sun to come out, but then it's not all that bad.

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@alberpajares4792

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

¡ don’t believe on the health, going to doctor only when ¡ feel bad..,

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@MK-qm9jt

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

France needs a REFORM unfortunately they have a protest culture that stops the reforms … they also have political parties caring more about hijabs than the economy 😅😅

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@tannewton

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

Take your time. i don't need it right now.
Seriously, the production of a good vaccine should take at least 8 years before the rollout. 12 years or longer would be better.

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@markknoop6283

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

For me personally i'm waiting on janssen pharmaceutical company vaccin.

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@omegaRST

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

Let's face it, Vaccine Rollout was a loss for the EU, it does not make me doubt that the EU is still the right choice, we will see how the rest of the next few decades unfolds but I have no doubt that the EU will accomplish great things by uniting the power of European nations.

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@macaodh4348

February 29, 2024 at 4:33 am

German Anal retention….worse than Covid😷🙃

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