Europe's Economy Falls Further Behind U.S. and China. 'It's Getting Desperate.'

The eurozone's economy is diverging sharply from the U.S. and China, as stubbornly high coronavirus infections, extensive Covid-19 restrictions and a painfully slow vaccine rollout delay Europe's recovery from last year's historic economic downturn. Fresh data Tuesday highlighted an economic gap between the eurozone and the U.S. and China that is likely to widen this year, given that the U.S. is proceeding more quickly than the European Union in rolling out vaccines and China remains largely free of the virus. The eurozone's gross domestic product contracted by 0.7% in the three months through December from the previous quarter , resulting…