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UK to roll out Astra/Oxford COVID vaccine after world-first approval
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<blockquote data-quote="sesquiterpene" data-source="post: 75642029" data-attributes="member: 413101"><p>The problem is we don't know whether the vaccines cut the transmission of the virus at all - that wasn't what was measured in the clinical trials. Yes, given the 95% efficacy of the two-dose Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, it's a pretty good bet that it will inhibit transmission to some extent. But with an unknown lower efficacy coming from only one dose - and with the lower starting efficacy of the AstraZenica vaccine - it's a much riskier bet. What good will a vaccine do if you can't reach herd immunity even with 100% uptake?</p><p></p><p>I think I'm happier with the current approach here. We can identify the very high-risk populations, and fully vaccinate them. Perhaps once we start to vaccinate the general population we can try reaching them faster. Certainly the people going to week-long raves to celebrate the New Year don't deserve the full shots...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sesquiterpene, post: 75642029, member: 413101"] The problem is we don't know whether the vaccines cut the transmission of the virus at all - that wasn't what was measured in the clinical trials. Yes, given the 95% efficacy of the two-dose Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, it's a pretty good bet that it will inhibit transmission to some extent. But with an unknown lower efficacy coming from only one dose - and with the lower starting efficacy of the AstraZenica vaccine - it's a much riskier bet. What good will a vaccine do if you can't reach herd immunity even with 100% uptake? I think I'm happier with the current approach here. We can identify the very high-risk populations, and fully vaccinate them. Perhaps once we start to vaccinate the general population we can try reaching them faster. Certainly the people going to week-long raves to celebrate the New Year don't deserve the full shots... [/QUOTE]
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