Still more on vaccination
Apr. 5th, 2021 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lyornI am very annoyed.
I got my first dose of Astra Zeneca on Feb 28, and took it reasonably well.
I should get the second dose on May 2nd, and I would be very happy and relieved and I would be doing the happy dance and buy overpriced chocolate to celebrate, if that should happen.
It seems, however, that it won't. Instead (insert polemic warning) I, and ten thousand of others who are at high or very high risk of getting Covid-19 in a very bad way, or having Covid-19, should they get it, delay urgent life-saving treatments for weeks or months, have been volunteered (on April 1st, of all days, but not an April Fool's joke, more's the pity) to act as a test group for a so far untested vaccination scheme of "first dose AZ, second mRNA (or whatever)". Note: Second. Not first of a new basic immunisation with *two* doses of an mRNA vaccine.
The very same government agency that has decided to do so is writing in their FAQ, right below "oh, by the way, we are switching the following groups to an untried vaccination scheme" that they haven't the foggiest if said untried vaccination scheme is safe or efficient.
It's efficient, though, to do this study on people likely to die should this new scheme turn out to be neither safe nor efficient. Dying is such a convincing and easily measured end point.
There isn't enough WTF in the world.
If you have not followed the German/EU shenanigans about the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, you might be confused about why they are even considering this.
If you have, you might be aware that there is sufficient reason to assume a risk of a bad complication after an AZ vaccination, which occurs more often in women than in men and more often in younger women than in in older ones. The complication, while possibly lethal if unrecognized and untreated, has (by now) known symptoms, a mechanism that is understood reasonably well, tests which show that it's happening, and a treatment.
It has also a risk of occurring which is about 1:100.000 among the most at-risk group of younger women.
The risk for a younger (than 60) woman with a bad Covid prognosis to get infected and die is higher -- probably by orders of magnitude. And there is still no good treatment for COVID-19.
What the everloving fuck are those guys on?
I have actually sent a mail to the government agency in question, askingwhat the fuck they were on if they might explain in their FAQ the rationale for these decisions, because it looked very confusing to a lay person.
I got my first dose of Astra Zeneca on Feb 28, and took it reasonably well.
I should get the second dose on May 2nd, and I would be very happy and relieved and I would be doing the happy dance and buy overpriced chocolate to celebrate, if that should happen.
It seems, however, that it won't. Instead (insert polemic warning) I, and ten thousand of others who are at high or very high risk of getting Covid-19 in a very bad way, or having Covid-19, should they get it, delay urgent life-saving treatments for weeks or months, have been volunteered (on April 1st, of all days, but not an April Fool's joke, more's the pity) to act as a test group for a so far untested vaccination scheme of "first dose AZ, second mRNA (or whatever)". Note: Second. Not first of a new basic immunisation with *two* doses of an mRNA vaccine.
The very same government agency that has decided to do so is writing in their FAQ, right below "oh, by the way, we are switching the following groups to an untried vaccination scheme" that they haven't the foggiest if said untried vaccination scheme is safe or efficient.
It's efficient, though, to do this study on people likely to die should this new scheme turn out to be neither safe nor efficient. Dying is such a convincing and easily measured end point.
There isn't enough WTF in the world.
If you have not followed the German/EU shenanigans about the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, you might be confused about why they are even considering this.
If you have, you might be aware that there is sufficient reason to assume a risk of a bad complication after an AZ vaccination, which occurs more often in women than in men and more often in younger women than in in older ones. The complication, while possibly lethal if unrecognized and untreated, has (by now) known symptoms, a mechanism that is understood reasonably well, tests which show that it's happening, and a treatment.
It has also a risk of occurring which is about 1:100.000 among the most at-risk group of younger women.
The risk for a younger (than 60) woman with a bad Covid prognosis to get infected and die is higher -- probably by orders of magnitude. And there is still no good treatment for COVID-19.
What the everloving fuck are those guys on?
I have actually sent a mail to the government agency in question, asking
