Europe catches up with US on Covid vaccinations

Medical workers give a Covid-19 vaccination in Milan, Italy (Antonio Calanni/AP)

Despite a sluggish start, the European Union’s Covid-19 vaccination drive has caught up with that of the United States, where the slowdown of the country’s once-vaunted campaign has contributed to the virus’s deadly comeback.

In mid-February, less than 4% of people living in the 27-nation EU had been at least partially vaccinated against coronavirus, compared with nearly 12% in the US, according to Our World in Data, an online science publication connected to the University of Oxford.