My main problem with this is the following: I would totally recommend Astrazeneca to everyone if the choice was between a) Astrazeneca, b) no vaccine.
But this is not the case (this has never been the case!). There are better, more effective vaccines—even not taking into account this CVT mess. In a world where we can produce infinitely many vaccines in 1 second, we’d have Pfizer/Moderna jabs for everyone.
So… why are we still producing Astrazeneca? It is the least likely to have an effect on transmission—we know for instance that it is less than 10% effective against B135, which is about 20% of the cases in Europe right now (see Luxembourg data). It does protect against severe disease from ancestral and B117 (still no data on B135 severe diseases), but… so does being young and healthy.
I think that we are using Astrazeneca as an emergency measure—we don’t have enough Pfizer, and people are dying. This is fine. But then, as you correctly point out, it begs the question: why are we giving it to people with close-to-none chances of dying from Covid19?
My main problem with this is the following: I would totally recommend Astrazeneca to everyone if the choice was between a) Astrazeneca, b) no vaccine.
But this is not the case (this has never been the case!). There are better, more effective vaccines—even not taking into account this CVT mess. In a world where we can produce infinitely many vaccines in 1 second, we’d have Pfizer/Moderna jabs for everyone.
So… why are we still producing Astrazeneca? It is the least likely to have an effect on transmission—we know for instance that it is less than 10% effective against B135, which is about 20% of the cases in Europe right now (see Luxembourg data). It does protect against severe disease from ancestral and B117 (still no data on B135 severe diseases), but… so does being young and healthy.
I think that we are using Astrazeneca as an emergency measure—we don’t have enough Pfizer, and people are dying. This is fine. But then, as you correctly point out, it begs the question: why are we giving it to people with close-to-none chances of dying from Covid19?
Do you have a link? (I can’t find one by googling.)
I had a better one, but a quick googling gave me this article: https://today.rtl.lu/news/luxembourg/a/1685866.html
(second paragraph)