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Re:Denmark to permanently cease using AstraZeneca vaccine by kspacewalk2 on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @12:21PM (#26809237)
Lies, damn lies, statistics, and statistics with low sample sizes.

In the UK they've had 13.5 million people under 60 vaccinated as of April 8, and a grand total of 79 cases and 19 deaths. The number of COVID deaths in people under 60 is more than 9000.

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Re:Denmark to permanently cease using AstraZeneca vaccine by marvin on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @01:51PM (#26810581)
You're blaming the qualitative difference in the observations on sample size when Denmark, Norway and Germany all observe the same effect to differing degrees - namely, rare blood clots approximately an order of magnitude more frequent than data from Europe as a whole indicates.

You should at least acknowledge that the UK has a per-capita Covid lethality of 15 times that of Norway, and that this might also be a relevant factor in these decisions.

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