Coronavirus: EU vaccine drive picks up pace while US stalls

The EU's once-faltering vaccine rollout has now overtaken that of the United States, The New York Times reported on Thursday, citing figures compiled by Our World in Data. But figuring out who is ahead in the race to protect their citizens from COVID-19 depends largely on how one crunches the numbers. The US newspaper pointed to data released on Thursday showing that the bloc had administered 103.32 doses per 100 people, compared to 102.67 in the United States. It shows that the EU's vaccination drive has certainly picked up pace after initially being hindered by supply and distribution problems.