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15 Dec, 6 tweets, 3 min read
The U.S., Canada and U.K. have started vaccinating, but the region where the Pfizer-BioNTech shot was developed is still waiting for it. Europeans are becoming unsettled with the wait as pressure grows on regulators to act fast. With ⁦@drewhinshaw⁩ wsj.com/articles/europ…
The EU’s chief drug reg­u­la­tor EMA is com­ing un­der pres­sure from some gov­ern­ments to au­tho­rize a Covid-19 vac­cine de­signed and pro­duced on EU soil, as the con­ti­nent strug­gles to con­tain a deadly wave of cases ahead of Christ­mas wsj.com/articles/europ…
At an EU sum­mit last week, at least three heads of gov­ern­ment com­plained that it was be­com­ing po­lit­i­cally un­ten­able to ex­plain to their cit­i­zens why the U.S. and Canada were ad­min­is­ter­ing a Eu­rope-made vac­cine ahead of the EU wsj.com/articles/europ…
“I hope that the EU too will get quick and un­bu­reau­cratic ap­proval of the first vac­cines while ob­serv­ing all sci­en­tific stan­dards,” @sebastiankurz said. “Be­cause every day of the pan­demic in Europe means thou­sands of deaths” wsj.com/articles/europ…
Ugur Sahin, Bio­N­Tech’s CEO who invented the jab, said in an in­ter­view Fri­day that the EMA process wasn’t tak­ing longer than those in the US/UK be­cause of sci­en­tific rea­sons, but rather be­cause the EU agency was fol­low­ing its own procedures wsj.com/articles/europ…
Frustration in the EU as bureaucracy postponed the use of a Covid-19 vaccine invented there that’s being unrolled across the world. EU’s regulator will now accelerate its re­view of the @BioNTech_Group/@pfizer jab af­ter com­ing un­der pressure wsj.com/articles/europ…

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Wonder how the UK beat the US and the EU to a #coronavirus vaccine? Here's an explainer by @jennystrasburg, @drewhinshaw and yours truly. Via @WSJ
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The U.K. authorized emergency use of a #Covid-19 vaccine developed by @Pfizer and ⁦@BioNTech_Group⁩ , becoming the first Western nation to clear a coronavirus shot. With ⁦@jennystrasburg⁩ via ⁦@WSJ⁩ wsj.com/articles/pfize…
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While the U.S. and Europe struggle to contain an autumn surge in #coronavirus infections, Finland and Norway are bucking the trend. Here’s how they do it. My report via ⁦@WSJ⁩ wsj.com/articles/finla…
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