Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Jan 2021
AstraZeneca vaccine warnings based on maths, not safety
29 January 2021 - The warning from the German health ministry’s vaccine committee that the AstraZeneca jab should not be given to those aged over 65 is a recommendation based purely on mathematics.
To be clear, there are no issues whatsoever of safety. But the efficacy issue boils down to a simple equation.
According to German data, in the AstraZeneca Phase 3 clinical trial conducted last year in the UK, Brazil and South Africa, only 341 people aged over 65 were given doses of the AZD1222 vaccine. That represented only 6.5% of participants. There were 319 people in the control group.
