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Same goal, different paths: US, EU seek max vaccine rates

FILE - In this March 4, 2021, file photo, police officers and others sit in a waiting zone after receiving their COVID-19 vaccine at the Brussels Expo center in Brussels. In both the U.S. and the EU, officials are struggling with the same question: how to boost vaccination rates to the max and end a pandemic that has repeatedly thwarted efforts to control it. In the European Union, officials in many places are requiring people to show proof of vaccination, a negative test or recent recovery from COVID-19 to participate in everyday activities — even sometimes to go to work. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, File) FILE - In this June 16, 2021, file photo, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen shows a phone, as she gives a press statement on the new COVID-19 digital travel certificate at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels. In both the U.S. and the EU, officials are struggling with the same question: how to boost vaccination rates to the max and end a pandemic that has repeatedly thwarted efforts to control it. In the European Union, officials in many places are requiring people to show proof of vaccination, a negative test or recent recovery from COVID-19 to participate in everyday activities — even sometimes to go to work. (Johanna Geron/Pool Photo via AP, File) FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2021, file photo, an employee checks a clients' health pass at a restaurant in Paris. In the European Union, officials in many places are requiring people to show proof of vaccination, a negative test or recent recovery from COVID-19 to participate in everyday activities — even sometimes to go to work. Struggling to boost its paltry vaccination rates in the early summer, France was the first major EU nation to start using such passes. (AP Photo/Adrienne Surprenant, File) FILE - In this June 30, 2021, file photo, an entertainer performs in a waiting room for those who have received a COVID-19 vaccine in Antwerp, Belgium. In both the U.S. and the EU, officials are struggling with the same question: how to boost vaccination rates to the max and end a pandemic that has repeatedly thwarted efforts to control it. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File) FILE - In this April 28, 2021, file photo, medical staff attend to a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care ward of the Erasme hospital in Brussels. In both the U.S. and the EU, officials are struggling with the same question: how to boost vaccination rates to the max and end a pandemic that has repeatedly thwarted efforts to control it. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File) FILE - In this Sept 15, 2021, file photo, protesters gather near parliament in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In Slovenia, hundreds of anti-vaccination protesters hurled flares at the parliament building to protest new measures that require a COVID pass for entering almost any shop, service or a workplace in the country. (AP Photo/File) FILE - In this July 30, 2021, file photo, Jay Vojno gets the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, in New York. In both the U.S. and the EU, officials are struggling with the same question: how to boost vaccination rates to the max and end a pandemic that has repeatedly thwarted efforts to control it. In the United States, President Joe Biden has issued sweeping vaccine mandates. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2021, staff at the Modern Museum of Art check visitors' proof of vaccination in New York. In both the U.S. and the EU, officials are struggling with the same question: how to boost vaccination rates to the max and end a pandemic that has repeatedly thwarted efforts to control it. In the United States, President Joe Biden has issued sweeping vaccine mandates. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) FILE - In this July 24, 2021, file photo, people protesting against the "green pass" walk past customers sitting at a cafe in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele shopping arcade, in Milan, Italy. Italy and France have seen thousands take the streets in protests of the COVID passes, some of which resulted in clashes with police in Paris. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File) FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2021, file photo, two Red Cross volunteers help a man to activate his pass on the TousAntiCovid application in Le Bourget, north of Paris, France. In both the U.S. and the EU, officials are struggling with the same question: how to boost vaccination rates to the max and end a pandemic that has repeatedly thwarted efforts to control it. In the European Union, officials in many places are requiring people to show proof of vaccination, a negative test or recent recovery from COVID-19 to participate in everyday activities — even sometimes to go to work. (AP Photo/Adrienne Surprenant, File) FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2021, file photo, anti-vaccine mandate protesters rally outside the garage doors of the Los Angeles Unified School District, LAUSD headquarters in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles board of education voted to require students 12 and older to be vaccinated against the coronavirus to attend in-person classes in the nation's second-largest school district. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File) FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2021, file photo, a notice explaining that proof of vaccination is required to dine inside is seen at a restaurant in midtown Manhattan in New York. In both the U.S. and the EU, officials are struggling with the same question: how to boost vaccination rates to the max and end a pandemic that has repeatedly thwarted efforts to control it. In the United States, President Joe Biden has issued sweeping vaccine mandates. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2021, President Joe Biden, with first lady Jill Biden, speaks during a visit at Brookland Middle School in northeast Washington. Biden has encouraged every school district to promote vaccines, including with on-site clinics, to protect students as they return to school amid a resurgence of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2021, file photo, a protester holds a placard reading "No to the health pass" during a demonstration against the COVID-19 health pass in front of the Eiffel Tower, in Paris. Italy and France have seen thousands take the streets in protests of the COVID passes, some of which resulted in clashes with police in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File) FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2021, file photo, a police officer checks a passenger's phone at Porta Garibaldi train station, in Milan, Italy. In both the U.S. and the EU, officials are struggling with the same question: how to boost vaccination rates to the max and end a pandemic that has repeatedly thwarted efforts to control it. Italy is the first major European economy to require the COVID pass to access places of work across all sectors. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File) FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2021, file photo, a man receives the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in a bus that serves as a mobile COVID-19 vaccination unit in Bucharest, Romania. In both the U.S. and the EU, officials are struggling with the same question: how to boost vaccination rates to the max and end a pandemic that has repeatedly thwarted efforts to control it. In the European Union, officials in many places are requiring people to show proof of vaccination, a negative test or recent recovery from COVID-19 to participate in everyday activities — even sometimes to go to work. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru, File)