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Re:Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine by londons_explore on Sunday April 04, 2021 @03:37PM (#26692198)
I would like to see:

* Estimates of death or serious complications of COVID, divided by age group.

* Estimates of death or serious complications of this vaccine, again by age group.

Then it should be easy for anyone to see that the benefits outweigh the risks (if they do!)

Re:Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine by krzyk on Sunday April 04, 2021 @03:40PM (#26692218)
Multiply the first one probability of getting infected with COVID.
Re:Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine by fab1an on Sunday April 04, 2021 @03:58PM (#26692370)
I don't have the table but the conclusion of the relevant authorities in the EU is basically that the risk of the vaccine-induced mortality is at least comparable to the risk of COVID19-mortality for younger women under 60 specifically. Norway saw an incidence vaccine induced serious side effects of 1:25k in younger women. It's unclear if the gender bias is due to the bias in the vaccinated group of HC workers.
Re:Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine by Daho0n on Sunday April 04, 2021 @03:49PM (#26692309)
Your local version of the CDC should have lots of numbers. I just had a quick look (at the Danish health department) and the numbers of reported side effects (all, not just adverse side effects) are approx. 1/36 in Pfizer and moderna and 1/7 AstraZeneca. That's.... quite the difference. Note this doesn't look at which group gets which vaccine etc. but only the reported numbers!
Re:Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine by captainmuon on Sunday April 04, 2021 @04:54PM (#26692748)
We have to be careful when comparing the raw numbers. The AstraZeneca vaccine is a vector vaccine and part of it's expected mechanism of action is triggering an (unpleasant) immune response. I'm not sure where the official definition draws the line between side effect and just normal unpleasantness, but I've heard that most people experience symptoms like a mild flu, and pain at the injection site. OTOH I've heard anecdotically that the Pfizer/Biontech vaccine has much less reactions.

Anyway I think we should not lump the mild/expected side effects and the serious and life threatening ones together. Unfortunately it's quite difficult to find reliable numbers for probability of e.g. blood clots after vaccine compared to the general population.

As a physicist, I'd also like to see the probability in the general population, but this population reweighted to match the population that has been given the vaccine. (E.g. if 0.1% of the population are nurses and 2% of the vaccinated are, then multiply their frequency by 20). When I just see a number, I never know how much they take this kind of confounding factors into account.