Americans living abroad are returning to the United States to receive their coronavirus vaccinations amid frustrations with delays in rolling out shots around the world.
Several Americans prefer to make the trip back to the US rather than wait in places like Europe, where the World Health Organization (WHO) said earlier this month that vaccination had taken place. “Unacceptably slow.”
Distribution issues have been exacerbated by the temporary suspension of the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford in several countries following concerns about rare blood clots.
While a safety committee of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) earlier this month insisted that the benefits of the AstraZeneca shot outweigh the potential risks, noting that there was a “possible link” between the vaccine and brain blood clots, recommended a number of countries against the shot for younger age groups, which saw the most cases of blood clots.
This week, Denmark became the first European country to permanent stop the distribution of the AstraZeneca survey after the country’s health agency said the vaccine “shows real and serious side effects”.
Chloe Zeitounian, a 32-year-old American actor living in London, tells The Wall Street Journal in an interview published on Saturday, she decided to travel to the US earlier this month to avoid the AstraZeneca shot, which was not approved for emergency use in the US.
“I’ve definitely seen people talk about vaccine tourism,” Zeitounian said. “That’s basically what I did.”
Zeitounian, who received a dose of Moderna vaccine and plans to return for a second dose on a business trip later this year if she does not get it in the UK, is one of several expats who the Journal was noticed. to the US to President Biden
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Cheryl Walling, a 61-year-old pensioner in Spain, said of her fellow Arizona citizens: “They are vaccinated right and left.”
“I’m so jealous. I’m so jealous,” Walling told the Journal.
Meanwhile, Americans abroad are reluctant to return to the US for fear it will make it difficult for them to receive “vaccine passports” in their country of residence.
This comes as conservatives in the US have protested against requiring vaccine passports, claiming that it infringes on people’s right to privacy and the choice to be vaccinated, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
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According to Friday, about 24 percent of the U.S. population, or about 80 million people, are fully vaccinated Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).