This is true, and it will stay that way for a while. The US (at federal level) failed at nearly everything regarding containment of the virus, but got one singl

This is true, and it will stay that way for a while. The US (at federal level) failed at nearly everything regarding containment of the virus, but got one single thing right in this pandemic: ordering vaccines. Ordering enough from the most promising manufacturers, at high-enough prices, and early. The EU failed at all of these three things in the most historic way possible.