>>Governor DeSantis is still taking a lot of cheap shots from the local and some national news but the results (follow the science ???) speak loudest. As of yesterday
>> over 25% (more than 1 million- not counting the under 65 with pre-existing conditions) of the high risk population (65+ years old) and account for 83% of covid-19 deaths have been vaccinated in Florida.
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>While I never was a MAGA / populist / covidiot, and both Johnson and Trump got a lot of well-desrved flak for bungling Corona measures early on, opening up too soon and setting more priority on economy - I estimate they are to blame for 25-35% of death count due to that bungling in US and GB.
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>But their response to vaccines was best for all industrialzed nations with large head count, getting access by overbuying early on and betting they could sell off overprovisioned stuff later. The stuff EU commission spouts is mostly stooopid, as it makes little difference to mutation rate and virus spread if vaccination is administered across the globe equally or some countries are vaccinated islands early on. IMO they dropped that ball and media is looking elsewhere.
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Any comments on the German newspaper Handelsblatt's claim that the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine might only have an efficacy of about 8% among those over the age of 65 ?

>Israel will offer everybody vaccination slot while EU politicians still play the blame game...
>Not going with market principle but curbing prices via bureocracy and misplaced some idealized notion of fairness probably will result in higher death count down the line compared over the whole planet plus higher cost compared to letting companies set prices much higher for first billion doses to secure ROI for production ramped up sooner.
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>my 0.22€
>thomas