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There’s a ‘Vaccine War’ Happening in Europe
The European Union Covid-19 vaccine campaign was bad, it’s now turned much worse
A Tale of two cities
Days after opening its gates, the largest Covid-19 vaccination center in Berlin, Germany, had to close down due to lack of doses. Merely 321 miles away in the city of Mainz, stands a building full of glass windows, and a large sign in its entrance saying, “Büro- und Laborgebäude” — offices and laboratories. At the bottom part of the sign, in green letters, appears the name of the company: BioNTech.
At this place, the biotechnology company headquarters, the idea, and research for the Covid-19 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were born. This vaccine is now out of stock in the Berlin center, and many other centers throughout Germany.
Things got so bad that the most popular German publication Bild ran a headline saying: “That’s how Germany became a vaccine snail.” In Europe, Germany is not alone.
The European fiasco
Saying that the European Union vaccination campaign is a disaster would be an understatement. It’s going terribly, terribly, wrong. While Israel has now almost vaccinated a third of its population, the U.K. has vaccinated 7.4 million people, and the U.S. is…
