Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a 'precaution'
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Re: Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a 'precaution'
#2with ~300 deaths per day in germany, how many people will this kill?
Re: Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a 'precaution'
#3This seems like a case where the precautionary principle is misleading. Maybe there's a small chance that the vaccine can be harmful for a few people. Meanwhile there's a large chance that not having the vaccine can increase your chance of getting COVID. Doesn't even a week's delay in vaccinating predictably increase the number of deaths in a country, perhaps by a large amount given the nonlinear dynamics of epidemics?
I'm assuming that these decisions aren't political and are genuinely being taken for medical reasons. I mean, I sure hope so.
Re: Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a 'precaution'
#4with ~300 deaths per day in germany, how many people will this kill?
Casual estimates are at 1700/week.
https://mobile.twitter.com/politicsforali/status/13714790084...
Re: Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a 'precaution'
#5Maybe AZ should have charged €3 per shot instead of €2 and spent the extra € on a PR agency. They just seem to be constantly taking a hammering in the press, unfairly I’d say.
Re: Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a 'precaution'
#6with ~300 deaths per day in germany, how many people will this kill?
Vaccine-related deaths are highly visible, daily covid deaths not so much...
Re: Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a 'precaution'
#7with ~300 deaths per day in germany, how many people will this kill?
Casual estimates are at 1700/week. https://mobile.twitter.com/politicsforali/status/13714790084...
So you are saying that no one would die in Germany if the vaccine would not be temporarily suspended? That's a bit simplistic. Not to mention that we go so far as to consider that every life is precious and we need to fight for every single COVID patient, but the people that could be affected by this are just statistically insignificant.
Re: Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a 'precaution'
#8You do have to wonder if some of this is politically driven. Germany are losing hundreds of life's a day, while in the meantime the UK has administrated 23 million doses (not sure the ratio of those that were AstraZeneca) and not recorded a single fatality or adverse reaction and are seeing infection rates / deaths drop. I can understand caution under normal circumstances, but nothing is normal right now.
Re: Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a 'precaution'
#9The pandemic has made me believe we need to be greater consiquentalists in our polices. It's pretty obvious that on the whole the AstraZeneca vax will save more people than are killed from the side effects. We don't not live in a 0 risk existence.
Re: Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a 'precaution'
#10It seems the rate of these conditions isn't any different for the vaccinated than for the population (last bit of the article makes this point).
What's the thought process here?