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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
I guess the US can afford to be perfectionist on this as its vaccination programme is going very well. However, surely any trial data has been superseded by the mass vaccination programmes in place across the World using the AstraZeneca vaccine.
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I guess the issue is that while nobody is disputing it's
safe and effective it's the absence of clear data from clinically controlled trials (and against variants) that makes it difficult to quantify how much and where to deploy which is why there is the call for transparency.
It might also make Governments rethink incentives to push people to get vaccinated if the herd immunity threshold is only going to be achieved with near 100% uptake.