Tag: COVID-19

Poland Refuses to Buy Extra Vaccines From Pfizer

In Poland, the vaccine campaign has not been as successful as expected. As a result, the government has a stock of 25 million unused vaccines, while an additional 67-70 million doses have been ordered.

Pandemic Economics: Spain the Only EU Country Still Limping from COVID

The Spanish will be, along with the Japanese, the only citizens of a large, developed economy who will end 2022 poorer than in 2019. Although Spain’s economic growth rate for 2022 is higher than both the global and Eurozone average, growing more than anyone is not enough, after having fallen further than everyone else.

Negative Returns for Spanish COVID-19 App

Actual usage of the app for reporting and tracking cases was extremely low. Throughout the two years of the pandemic, just over 1% percent of the 11.6 million cases officially diagnosed in Spain were then reported on the application.

German Ethics Council Criticises Crisis Management During the Pandemic

The German Ethics Council released a statement criticising politics and media for their crisis management during the pandemic, calling for measures to be “democratically legitimised,” while conveniently forgetting how the Ethics Council helped shape those very measures they now criticise.

The Cure Was Worse Than the Disease

The essential thesis of the book is, regardless of the efficacy of pandemic management measures, that there was never an assessment of what the likely damage was going to be. The equation between benefit and damage was unbalanced; in fact, the damage side was left blank.