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Originally Posted by TheDaddy

There's a report about to break in Germany claiming Astra Oxford vaccine is only 8% effective in over 65's

Here is the report.

https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/...0-e2ac77f6609f

The corona vaccine from the manufacturer AstraZeneca apparently has little effectiveness in older people. As the "Handelsblatt" reports, citing government circles, the vaccine is only expected to be effective at eight percent in those over 65 years of age.

The "Bild" newspaper, however, also citing government circles, reports that the vaccine should only receive approval from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for people under 65 years of age.

According to the “Handelsblatt” report, the Federal Ministry of Health is already checking whether the sequence of vaccinations, which is staggered according to age, needs to be adjusted. A statement by the ministry on the possible consequences of the low effectiveness on the government's vaccination plan is not available, according to »Handelsblatt«.

A final result on the effectiveness of the AstraZeneca vaccine is not yet possible, according to the newspaper. In the clinical studies of the pharmaceutical company, older people were apparently relatively poorly represented. The British approval authority MHRA had already noted that meaningful results on the effectiveness of the vaccine could not be determined in these studies.

AstraZeneca is already under pressure because it apparently cannot meet the contractually agreed delivery quantities of the vaccine to the EU. The British-Swedish group announced on Friday that after the approval of its vaccine - which is due to take place this week - it will only deliver 31 million doses instead of 80 by the end of March.