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Old 02-02-2021, 17:38   #3324
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Re: Coronavirus (R.I.P Captain Sir Tom Moore 1920-2021)

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
Germany, Poland and now France restrict the upper age limit for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55901957
Could be an convenient/interesting strategy. Utilises vaccines where known to be most effective and allows them to skip hardest to reach age groups and get straight into 55-65 year olds in mass vaccination sites.

While I’m sceptical of the real world performance of the AZ vaccine on the ground - and I think we can see Government are particularly concerned that 62% reduced by the 1 dose strategy doesn’t give much headroom against the new UK/SA hybrid variant - my cynicism goes in all directions.

I wonder if the Sputnik V vaccine at 92% will push the Government to revisit it’s strategy and go for the half dose/full dose AZ that discovered highest results by accident - I think Sputnik V does the same low then high dose.
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