Brief: First Shot in the Vaccine Wars

The EU is requiring vaccine makers to seek national approval before exporting COVID-19 jabs outside the bloc.

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Background: EU member states are trailing their peers in terms of economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, and all sorts of issues with their vaccine rollouts risk making things much worse. The sooner countries can get large swaths of their populations vaccinated, the sooner normal economic activity can return and the economic recovery can really […]

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