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Not sure it's that illogical. mRNA vaccines are apparently better and don't seem to have serious side effects, so only using those is correct if it doesn't del
by devit 5y ago
Not sure it's that illogical.
mRNA vaccines are apparently better and don't seem to have serious side effects, so only using those is correct if it doesn't delay immunity too long.
According to the article, this might cause a 4 weeks delay: currently Denmark has around 2 deaths per day, thus possibly causing 60 additional deaths, which would match a vaccine death rate of 1/100000.
Denmark has a 6 million population, and it seems AstraZeneca kills around 1/1000000 so it seems COVID is only 10x more lethal than the vaccine in the general population.
However death rates for COVID are much higher in the elderly while vaccine clot rates are much higher in young people, so the AstraZeneca vaccine might be more lethal in present day Denmark for young people.
Even among elderly people they can eliminate their COVID risk by isolating but they would be forced to take the vaccine risk if the government only offers the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Finally any vaccine deaths can be more easily attributed to the person who made the decision to continue using the vaccine thon COVID deaths.
- joakleaf 5y ago+ most elderly have already been vaccinated or are in between shots.
- erk__ 5y agoThe note [0] (in Danish) published by the danish health authority with the reasoning for this puts the number a bit higher at around 5 to 10 per 1,000,000 [1], another thing that the note points out is if they start the vaccine program up with the AZ vaccine again, it may delay it in the older population even more as they think many people would say no to it. [0]: https://www.sst.dk/-/media/Udgivelser/2021/Corona/Vaccination/Notater/Notat-vedr-fortsat-udrulning-af-COVID-19-vaccine-i-Danmark-uden-Vaxzevria140421.ashx https://www.sst.dk/-/media/Udgivelser/2021/Corona/Vaccinatio... [1]: 1/40000 chance of serious complication with a around 20-40% chance of death, source: [0].