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I mean ultimately we’re guessing at the rationale of the leadership of each of these countries - but I’d guess based on vaccination rates that Europe generally
by jowday 5y ago
I mean ultimately we’re guessing at the rationale of the leadership of each of these countries - but I’d guess based on vaccination rates that Europe generally has less of an antivax problem than the US, so authorities there might be less concerned about vaccine hesitancy. Vaccine hesitancy in the US is also very regionally concentrated - maybe less so in Germany?
“COVID parties” are also a worst case scenario - I think the vast majority of people would just opt to not get vaccinated and live their lives as usual - which would lead to more outbreaks, deaths, mutations, etc.
- nradov 5y agoThere is a huge variance in vaccination rates of European countries. The US is behind most western European countries but ahead of most eastern European countries. https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer
- jowday 5y agoI was talking about Germany specifically in the parent - the least vaccinated state in Germany has a ~10% higher vaccination rates than the least vaccinated state in the US. But it looks like there is a good deal of variance even inside Germany.
- nickff 5y agoThere are also only 16 states in Germany; Even a naive statistician would presume that the USA is likely to have larger differences between min and max than Germany. Another post on the HN frontpage is relevant to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28526966 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28526966
- rendang 5y agoSpecifcally this part: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations#attitudes-to-covid-19-vaccinations https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations#attitudes-to-c... The US has more skeptics than Germany and France, but it's a pretty slim difference