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lyorn ([personal profile] lyorn) wrote 2021-04-08 10:38 am (UTC)

I have considered making as big a fuss as I can (which is probably "not very") , but there's enough FUD going around already. :-(

Instead I have written to the RKI (no answer yet, not that I am expecting much), and to the NDR Corona Podcast, and it seems that I wasn't the only one doing the latter!

The podcast talked about it in their latest edition (#83) -- also about why a "heterologous vaccination scheme" has not been studied yet, despite a desire to do so: Non-approved usage of a drug + risky = lots of regulation and effort involved. (Weird, isn't it? Doing it as part of a study is regulated, prescribing it to people who cannot give informed consent for lack of available information is just peachy. I am still convinced that either I or a lot of experts are just off their rocker.)

Also, they are hoping for a study from the UK soon. Ms Ciesek thinks that it will probably work out OK, because as far as known, it did people who have had Covid-19 and gotten a single dose vaccination later. I might even work better.

Hendrik Streeck seems as baffled about "we don't know anything, so we recommend it" as me, if less panicked, while the STIKO guy (of course) still thinks it a brilliant idea because one cannot know how risky a second dose of AZ is. I still cannot follow that risk evaluation.

But at least it's getting discussed now, and more important, studied.
If it works equally well or better, then I'm all for it. But until then I go with what is tested and approved for use, if possible.

Also: There isn't enough chocolate in the world for this.

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