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The problem flared last week but has been months in the making.
Both AstraZeneca and EU leaders made mistakes that sapped public confidence.
Experts and regulators say the shot is safe, and EU leaders are moving to repair the damage. There is currently an acceptance problem with the AstraZeneca vaccine, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said last week. She was putting it lightly.
Merkel s interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung came as governments across Europe realized that mistrust among their people for this particular shot imperiled the continent s entire vaccination drive.
Official European Union data showed that as of Wednesday only 28% of the 7.3 million doses of the jab had been put into people s arms, a massive underutilization of a precious resource.
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