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Old Apr 7, 2021, 2:26 pm
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Originally Posted by intuition
In other news...
It seems EU and a number of member states have issued updated prognosis today. EU claims target (I assume the 70% level) will be reached much earlier that previously said. Now by end of june.
Mrs Von der Leyen already promised 70% of EU adults would have had the chance to be vaccinated by end of June, something like two months ago though. It's really nothing but estimations anyway. What if one of the supplier factory burns down, like happened in the (also under-supplied) chips business... But there is no denying that vaccine production is ramping up heavily in EU this month, so we just have to hope that logistics follow.

There's still the problem of want to be vaccinated, which is pretty low among younger age groups. By some models, we'd need 90% of the whole population vaccinated to stop the spread of the so-called British variant. In other words, even 100% of all adults wouldn't be enough.
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