Covid Is a Dangerous Disease. Why Do So Many Americans Say They’re More Afraid of Vaccines?

James Surowiecki
5 min readSep 1, 2021
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European Union officials announced today that 70 per cent of the adults in the E.U. have now been fully vaccinated, confirming what’s been clear for a while now: after a very slow start, Europe has done a much better job of vaccinating its people than the U.S. has. (Just 63.4% of American adults are fully vaccinated, and Europe has…

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James Surowiecki

I’m the author of The Wisdom of Crowds. I’ve been a business columnist for Slate and The New Yorker and written for a wide range of other publications.