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Germany restricts use of AstraZeneca vaccine to over 60s in most cases

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These cases have only observed in younger people and also the risk that Covid poses increases with age. So elderly people who are also at increased risk of severe Covid cases could still take advantage of it (and be better off regarding risk in a sense).

Certainly a bold move. After first restricting it to only younger people because of a lack of study data, then reversing that and now another restriction with the opposite effect.

But as the agency said, while the move might damage the image of Covid vaccinations for some people, they acted on the data available to them at all times. Better that way than not updating guidelines for political reasons.

Here’s an article with a potentially interesting theory related vaccine technique:

https://wf2naznfxqthy3htvdh4tef4nu-adwhj77lcyoafdy-www-berli...

And here’s an article about issues with IV-injected adenoviruses:

https://ashpublications.org/blood/article/109/7/2832/125650/...

Canada did the same, but for 55+, at least temporarily.

I wonder if there is any data about the vaccine's safety from UK? Isn't UK vaccinating its whole population using AZ exclusivly?

The UK has identified basically the same pattern (https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/...), but they don’t think the clots are an important problem because they’re so rare.

> One of the five reported cases was fatal, MHRA Vaccine Safety Lead Philip Bryan said, adding that the cases were all among men aged between 19 and 59.

This is weird. In Germany almost all of the cases were women.

I think in Germany it was biased towards health care workers, who are more likely to be women.

But this is interesting of course, since there are speculations about young women's baseline increased thrombosis risk weighing in on the stats.

I think this makes it much more likely to be an actual problem with the vaccine.

Either way, the numbers don't justify the restrictions. People should be allowed to make an educated choice for themselves.

UK started in December with Pfizer/Biontech, AZ since roughly 2021 I believe.

EDIT: removing link to lifesitenews com article, don't want to give them traffic.

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