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Originally Posted by Chris
By coincidence the BBC is running a package now about the AZ vaccine being used for house visits where vulnerable and shielding people haven’t been able to get out to a vaccination centre. Obviously this is much easier to do with the AZ vaccine than either Pfizer or Moderna because once those have thawed you have to use them quickly.
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That's very nice of the state propaganda machine to do so.
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The AZ vaccine, and others like it (chilled rather than cryogenic storage) are going to be the workhorse vaccines in this pandemic, and not the high-tech, supercooled mRNA vaccines the EU has most access to. I’m happy for us to share our expertise and good fortune with those countries that have expressed concerns, but I really don’t know how genuine those concerns are.
To me it looks like a dead cat story designed to deflect attention away from the EU’s horrific vaccination programme failure and to stop EU citizens thinking that the UK might be in a better position than the EU - which of course is not the narrative anyone in the EU wants to deal with.
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I agree if real world effectiveness of the Ox/Az vaccine stands up. We disagree on whether selectively interpreting this data retrospectively is trustworthy, however a greater extent the point is moot. It's out there - 10 million doses.
Let's see how it flies. My only caveat is the decreased PCR testing by the UK Government in favour of lateral flow testing could tip the balance at very convenient timing despite not being reflective of how the vaccine is performing in the community (which ONS testing will provide).