RE: Astra Zeneca vaccine25 Jan 2021 22:13
Do I have to explain google translate now? It needs registration for the full article and I cba... but here’s the available text:
The German vaccination strategy is threatened with a fiasco: The British-Swedish group's agent is said to be only eight percent effective in older people.
Berlin, Düsseldorf, Brussels After the controversial vaccination start in Germany , the federal government placed high hopes in the approval of the vaccine from Astra-Zeneca: The preparation of the British-Swedish group is to complement the RNA vaccine from Biontech and Moderna and pave the way for the second vaccination phase level in which people can also have their family doctors vaccinated.
But the vaccine from Astra-Zeneca, which, unlike the RNA agents, does not require extreme temperatures below zero for storage, could be unsuitable for seniors at risk of corona: According to information from the Handelsblatt from coalition circles, the federal government only expects an effectiveness of eight percent among the over 65s. It was feared that this vaccine, for which the EU could approve this week , would not come close to the 90 percent effectiveness of the RNA vaccine. The extremely low effectiveness in seniors is a setback for the Berlin vaccination strategy.