Quote: Zoo Zoo Boom "There was a couple of cases in Norway - but no correlation to AZ jab was ever made yet Germany, France etc jumped on the bandwagon - why? There were known side effects of the Pfizer jab which were far more prevalent than those of AZ jab - anaphylactic shock, respiratory problem, facial nerve paralysis yet nothing - why AZ and not Pfizer - the logic doesn't stack up.'"
I don’t know, and I don’t want to spend the time required to gain a proper understanding. Balancing the benefits and risks can be tricky (although this seemed very odd to me, maybe it was just legal ass covering) but my point here is that the judgement was made by countries individually not by the EU as a bloc.
A very quick Google indicates that in the EU, Sweden (where the Astra-bit comes from), Latvia, France, Austria, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Portugal, Slovenia, Germany, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Denmark and Ireland suspended use. Which means a dozen EU countries didn’t.
European non-EU members Iceland and Norway also suspended use. The Swiss still haven’t even approved it yet AFAIK.
Outside of Europe, Thailand, Indonesia and the DR Congo suspended use.
Brexit has been our national political-cultural obsession, the rest of the EU and world do not care nearly as much and are perfectly capable of making poop decisions irrespective. It is bleakly reassuring to know that we don’t have a monopoly on COVID related idiocy, and that we’re doing better in this regard.