Re:Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a 'precaution'
by hef19898 on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @03:03AM
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But you cannot stack people that died, past tense, with people that might die from something else. The best comparison would be comparing people that might die from blood clots against additional people that might die from COVID.
Neither of us was doing that so far. Case mortality seems to be the best basis, adjusted maybe for overall risk of infection when everything is opened up and nobody is using masks anymore. At which point any comparison most likely degenerated into guess work.
The main difference so is that vaccinations reduce the overall risk for the population. And we didn't even talk about severe long term effects of COVID.
That being said, we live with a lot of medications that have severe side effects in the 1/100,000 plus bracket without breaking a sweat.
By the way, I don't see how you come to the conclusion that the AZ vaccine is in any way riskier than COVID.
Neither of us was doing that so far. Case mortality seems to be the best basis, adjusted maybe for overall risk of infection when everything is opened up and nobody is using masks anymore. At which point any comparison most likely degenerated into guess work.
The main difference so is that vaccinations reduce the overall risk for the population. And we didn't even talk about severe long term effects of COVID.
That being said, we live with a lot of medications that have severe side effects in the 1/100,000 plus bracket without breaking a sweat.
By the way, I don't see how you come to the conclusion that the AZ vaccine is in any way riskier than COVID.