#54 – Edouard Mathieu on Our World in Data
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How Country Comparisons Made Vaccination Faster
Country comparison is the thing that we mostly enabled by just making it available from a user interface point of view where people could really easily like select countries and compare them to one another. And I think that allowed people to push forward restrictions or policies in general that would have taken more time to happen. The best example of that is very early vaccination in the EU, where during the first 10 days of the vaccination in late December, it was very quick. It was very quickly visible that governments had completely different ideas of what it meant to vaccinate the country.
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