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Welcome to the Views Room, a weekly podcast brought to you by Reuters. I'm Rob Cox, the editor

of breaking views coming to you from Zurich, Switzerland. For this week's edition, I spoke to

my colleagues Amy Donnellin in Ireland and Neil Unmac in London about the halting efforts to deliver

COVID-19 vaccinations in Europe. Having just gotten back from the US, where just about everyone I

saw was either jabbed already or had their first shot scheduled, I wanted to understand better why

things are so far behind the U.S. and the U.K. on the European continent, including here in Switzerland.

As you'll hear, it's a combination of factors, starting with the limited supply of vaccines.

But there also appears to be something deeper, a kind of mistrust in general of vaccinations

in parts of Europe. And there is what looks like a sort of general risk aversion,

which may explain the panic in recent days over side effects stemming from the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine.

To be honest, I think there's something else at work.

It may come down to the differing appetites for managing risk among developed societies.

That determines their willingness or lack thereof to embrace innovation, put their faith in technology,

and entrust non-state institutions like corporations and drug companies to act in good faith.

After that, I chat with Jen Hughes and Hong Kong to get her read on some recent restructuring

moves of the historic Hong Kong trading firm of Jardine Matheson.

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