Coronavirus: Vaccination, confinement ... Why is the United States doing better than Europe and France?
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100 million doses administered.
Faced with Covid-19, the United States passed a major milestone on Friday, with nearly one in four American adults having received at least one dose, and 12.5% vaccinated.
Among those over 65, two-thirds have already received a dose, and one-third are vaccinated.
Per capita, it is between two and three times more than France.
Why such a gap?
Why are reopening on the other side of the Atlantic increasing when 16 French departments are being reconfigured?
For Lawrence Gostin, professor of health law at Georgetown, with Operation Warp Speed launched by Donald Trump, “the United States took the lead by ordering hundreds of millions of doses before knowing that the vaccines would be effective ".
More cautious, Europe has procrastinated and is paying it all the more dearly since it was hit earlier by the British variant, with a race against time engaged to achieve collective immunity.
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