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  • the race to vaccinate the world will be far from straightforward.

  • Over the past month, the U.

  • S Europe and countries like Israel have approved at least one covert 19 vaccine on, although the contenders got off to a similar start.

  • Ah, clear winner has already emerged.

  • Israel has inoculated 15% of its population, and that's down to three factors.

  • The main reason isn't paid a premium to get early doses off the Pfizer biotech vaccine.

  • It's also gone for a centralized approach to getting vaccines to its people.

  • This means that it uses around 400 vaccination centers.

  • But most crucially, it seems to have a more willing public.

  • It already had a vaccination registry, which makes it easier for the government to contact people to let them know when they need a vaccine.

  • On a follow up dose, the UK was the first out of the blocks on.

  • Although it's managed to vaccinate over a million people, challenges lie ahead.

  • It needs to recruit staff and actually build the vaccination centers themselves.

  • Without that, they are now using a decentralized approach hospitals and doctors offices to administer vaccines.

  • But the problem is, the National Health Service is already overwhelmed.

  • Over 1000 people are dying a day in the UK, which makes it more difficult to administer these vaccines in the hospitals.

  • But France is the clear lag art.

  • At the beginning of this month, it had only inoculated around 500 of its citizens, and that may seem counterintuitive.

  • France boasts one of the best health care systems in the world, but it also appears to have a very fearful public.

  • In a recent poll, 60% of its citizens said that they would not take a covert 19 vaccine.

  • And although that number has fallen to around 40% in recent days, that's still a lot of people that need to be convinced to take the vaccine.

  • Investors seemed to have already clocked this.

  • The value of Israel's top 125 companies has gone up by around 6% since the start of December.

  • Britain's Footsie 100 index has gone up by a similar level, but France's top 40 companies has only gone up by around 2%.

the race to vaccinate the world will be far from straightforward.

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