Americans living abroad return to the United States to receive their coronavirus vaccines amid frustrations with delays in firing shots around the world.
Several Americans choose to make the trip back to the United States instead of waiting for a shot at places like Europe, where the World Health Organization (WHO) earlier this month said it has produced the deployment of vaccines “Unacceptably slow.”
Distribution problems have been exacerbated by the temporary suspension in several countries of the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University following concerns about rare blood clots.
Although earlier this month a safety committee of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) urged that the benefits of getting AstraZeneca shot outweigh the potential risks, noting that there was a “possible link”. between the vaccine and cerebral blood clots, several countries have recommended shooting for younger age groups, who have seen most cases of blood clots.
This week, Denmark became the first European country to do so stop for good its distribution of AstraZeneca’s shot after the country’s health agency said the vaccine “showed real and serious side effects.”
This was said by Chloe Zeitounian, a 32-year-old American actor living in London The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Saturday, who decided to travel to the United States earlier this month to avoid firing AstraZeneca, which has not been approved for emergency use in the U.S.
“I’ve definitely seen talk of vaccine tourism,” Zeitounian said. “That’s basically what I did.”
Zeitounian, who received a dose of the Modern vaccine and plans to return for the second dose on a business trip later this year if he fails to get it in the UK for the first time, is one of several newspaper expatriates who decide to come to the United States later President Biden
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Cheryl Walling, a 61-year-old retiree in Spain, said of her fellow citizens in Arizona, “They’re vaccinated right and left.”
“I am just jealous. I’m very jealous, “Walling told the Journal.
Meanwhile, some Americans residing abroad are hesitant to return to the United States for fear that it will make it difficult for them to receive “vaccine passports” in their countries of residence.
This happens when U.S. conservatives have argued against the need for vaccine passports, claiming they violate the right to privacy and the choice of people to get vaccinated, with the Florida governor. Ron DeSantis
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As of Friday, about 24 percent of the U.S. population, or about 80 million people, have been completely vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).