Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Is Worse In E.U. Than U.S. In the Covid-19 vaccination race the U.S. is proving to be a formidable competitor. The U.S. is vaccinating at a faster pace than any member of the E.U., and three times the E.U. average. Getting shots into the arms of often vaccine-hesitant E.U. residents has proved to be much trickier.