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Re:Germans are turning down Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine by carlmr on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:04PM (#26228895)
I mean I can't blame them, it supposedly causes side-effects in 40% of cases, isn't very effective against some mutations, and the population they want to vaccinate doesn't have a huge risk of severe covid to begin with.

Aside from this the politicians really bungled the marketing. First it was claimed it doesn't work in the elderly (which wasn't true, just illiteracy), then they said the younger people will only get this vaccine, not the other ones. It's bound to make people suspicious.

Maybe they should learn from Frederick the Great of Prussia: "Trying a less direct approach to encourage his subjects to begin planting potatoes, Frederick used a bit of reverse psychology: he planted a royal field of potato plants and stationed a heavy guard to protect this field from thieves. Nearby peasants naturally assumed that anything worth guarding was worth stealing, and so snuck into the field and snatched the plants for their home gardens. Of course, this was entirely in line with Frederick's wishes." [1]

[1] https://www.history-magazine.com/potato.html

Re:Germans are turning down Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine by alfu on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:11PM (#26228999)
Source on the 40%?

Quick search yields

> “Between 10% and 15% of those vaccinated may have side-effects from this vaccination, but it is only a feverish state, fevers, nausea and within 12 hours it goes away.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-europe-as...

Re:Germans are turning down Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine by carlmr on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:15PM (#26229043)
I only read this this morning:

https://m.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/corona-impfung-von-...

It's in German, the doctor still recommends getting vaccinated.

Re:Germans are turning down Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine by 0x008 on Monday February 22, 2021 @03:06PM (#26229828)
Well I got the same from a off-the-shelf hepatitis shot 2 years ago. It is really unfortunate they print it this way because the headline surely will be taken out of context.
Re:Germans are turning down Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine by TurkishPoptart on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:51PM (#26229633)
How effective are the mRNA vaccines against the new strains/mutations? Do we have hard data on that yet?
Re:Germans are turning down Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine by carlmr on Monday February 22, 2021 @03:41PM (#26230286)
https://time.com/5933340/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-new-strain...

They seem to be mostly effective, albeit still giving less of an immune response than would be possible.

Also Curevac is working together with GSK on a multi mutant mRNA vaccine. Since the mRNA approach seems to be flexible it's reasonable to assume this will allow quick adaptations like this.

https://www.curevac.com/en/2021/02/03/gsk-and-curevac-to-dev...

Re:Germans are turning down Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine by bipson on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @05:13AM (#26235597)
The vector approach is just as flexible in my understanding.