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Originally Posted by Chris

Actually Jfman raised an interesting point the other day ... a useful side-effect of the decision not to use the Oxford vaccine on older people in many European countries has handed their governments a decent excuse to explain their limited supply and also to do what the statistics say you should, but human decency says you shouldn't, which is to give the vaccine to younger people, who have more life ahead of them, and leave the elderly to take their chances...

I'm quite sure the decision, where taken, is political. After all, they'll give the Pfizer vaccine to the >65s. It would be political suicide to penalise the >65s by making them wait.