Germany suspends use of AstraZeneca vaccine, along with Italy, France, Spain

Re:Germany suspends use of AstraZeneca vaccine, along with I... by Huwyt_Nashi031 on Monday March 15, 2021 @05:45PM (#26469578)

Is it? Genuine question, I don't have the numbers, but my gut says it's a close one.

How many of those 17 million would have never even caught the bug? And how many of those will get it anyway, even with the vaccine? How many of those would have developed symptoms? How many of those had serious underlying health problems that may have escalated those symptoms to ICU necessity? And how many of those would have succumbed?

It can't possibly be "VASTLY" more than 0.0002%, right?

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Re:Germany suspends use of AstraZeneca vaccine, along with I... by kzrdude on Monday March 15, 2021 @05:54PM (#26469696)

of course it can be vastly more than 0.0002.

EU population is very roughly 500 million. Very roughly 560 thousand people have already died of covid in EU+EEA - that's 1 in one thousand of the whole population dying from covid in the last year, or 0.1%.

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Re:Germany suspends use of AstraZeneca vaccine, along with I... by qalmakka on Monday March 15, 2021 @06:01PM (#26469777)

> How many of those 17 million would have never even caught the bug?

If they don't get a vaccine, unless you dig yourself a hole and you stay there until the virus has somehow disappeared, is almost certain you will get infected.

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