re: Are EU nations trashing the AstraZeneca vaccine out of spite for BREXIT?

It's interesting, for sure. I wouldn't put it past the EU to be covering up for their own ineptitude and trying to pass the blame on to someone else. The US is still higher than the EU in deaths per capita, but the final tally might be different as we've jumped out to a major lead on vaccinations and should have most of our vulnerable population vaccinated in the very short term future. The EU, on the other hand, is still fumbling around trying to get vaccines out and has essentially shot themselves in the foot by suspending their only readily available vaccine because of alleged blood clotting issues that are less than you'd find in the general population.