I want to know if *I* am being absurd, or if the public health agency is. And most of all I want evidence.
I don't think it's an either-or proposition. I think maybe neither is being absurd. You're not wrong to want more evidence, but it doesn't seem like that exists, and so decisions have to be made in the absence of that evidence.
I think the calculus is that asking people (those younger people who had the one AZ shot before it was found to have that risk) to take a known risk of stroke when there's an alternative vaccination path that doesn't seems reckless. While it's possible that there's a bad interaction between AZ and a mRNA follow-up, it seems the more likely bad outcome is that they simply fail to have the compounding effect getting two of the same shots attains, in which case, one is left with all the protection of one of the two different shots one gets, presumably the greater of the two. The mRNA shots seem to have an efficacy of around 80% with a single dose, IIRC; I don't know for AZ.
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Date: 2021-04-10 05:19 am (UTC)I want to know if *I* am being absurd, or if the public health agency is. And most of all I want evidence.
I don't think it's an either-or proposition. I think maybe neither is being absurd. You're not wrong to want more evidence, but it doesn't seem like that exists, and so decisions have to be made in the absence of that evidence.
I think the calculus is that asking people (those younger people who had the one AZ shot before it was found to have that risk) to take a known risk of stroke when there's an alternative vaccination path that doesn't seems reckless. While it's possible that there's a bad interaction between AZ and a mRNA follow-up, it seems the more likely bad outcome is that they simply fail to have the compounding effect getting two of the same shots attains, in which case, one is left with all the protection of one of the two different shots one gets, presumably the greater of the two. The mRNA shots seem to have an efficacy of around 80% with a single dose, IIRC; I don't know for AZ.