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Your options are not just A) take the AZ vaccine right now, and B) never take any vaccine. You can also wait until more data becomes available, or until anothe
by sobriquet9 6y ago
Your options are not just A) take the AZ vaccine right now, and B) never take any vaccine.
You can also wait until more data becomes available, or until another vaccine becomes available. Doing so does carry some incremental risk, but this risk is smaller than the risk of not getting vaccinated ever.
- rob74 6y ago> until another vaccine becomes available Well yeah, other vaccines (Biontech/Pfizer and Moderna) with far fewer side effects and apparently higher effectivity are already available, and that's part of the problem. It's not that the potentially fatal blood clots are the only side effect of the AstraZeneca vaccine, people also pretty often get infection symptoms (fever etc.), which is of course not that bad, but still unpleasant. So you can't really blame people for wanting to get the better vaccine...
- simonh 6y agoI specifically talked about the risks of delayed vaccination and did not frame the choice in the extreme terms you described.
- sobriquet9 6y agoLooks like it was a pretty short delay: https://www.dw.com/en/astrazeneca-german-team-discovers-thrombosis-trigger/a-56925550 https://www.dw.com/en/astrazeneca-german-team-discovers-thro...