As the politico.eu website reports, the European Commission’s goal of getting 70 percent of all adults in the EU to get vaccinated is “wildly off. If the current pace of vaccination persists, the bloc as a whole would reach only 15 percent by the end of September. Based on the average of the past week, the bloc would have to ramp up vaccination by a factor of five to hit its target.“
At the current pace, the EU as a whole wouldn’t hit that target until March 2024, the website writes, noting that “on the extreme end is Bulgaria, which wouldn’t get there until 2040 and would need to pick up vaccination by a factor of 29. Latvia would need to accelerate its pace by a factor of 17; Italy by 10; and Hungary by nine.“ At the current pace, no EU country comes close to the Commission’s vaccination target by the end of September.
