The EU is failing at covid vaccines. In the U.S. anyone over 12 can get B.A4&5-tailored booster now and 5–11-year-olds next month. In the EU, B.A1-tailored some time later for the elderly. In the U.S. & Canada, 0.5–4-year-olds can get vaccinated, in the EU πŸ¦—πŸ¦—πŸ¦— from EMA.
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In the US, I suspect the reason *anyone over 12 who wants to* can get a BA.4/BA.5 booster is that not many people want to. It was pretty quiet where I got vaccinated yesterday and I can't imagine they could roll out this quickly if there was more demand.
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social @davidbaron
8 Sep 2022
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In Finland, while waiting for bivalent doses, the limiting factor isn’t doses in stock. They are at risk of expiring. The limiting factor is gatekeeper unwilling to recommend. As it happens, the gatekeeper also conducts research on duration of immunity.
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Replying to @hsivonen @Schouten_B
As I suspected, not much demand in the US:
NBC News
 @NBCNews
23 Sep 2022
A lack of public awareness about the shots or the prevailing narrative that the pandemic is ending might have hindered the vaccine rollout, a Yale Medicine infectious disease specialist says. nbcnews.to/3R8D7rC

Sep 25, 2022 Β· 1:44 AM UTC
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