[Info-vax] [Totally OT] Covid-19 vaccine situation

[Craig A. Berry]

On 3/31/21 1:56 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-03-31, Hein RMS van den Heuvel <heinvandenheuvel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 9:55:53 AM UTC-4, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>> In article <s41s2j$5ul$1... at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
>>> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>>
>>>> My question is this: What the hell is going on with the vaccine authorisation
>>>> decision makers in Europe (and elsewhere, such as Canada) at the moment ?
>>
>> Ditto. Totally irresponsible, unscientific populist decision making.
>> The media did not help as they prefer a panic story over rational information it seems.
>>
>> The Netherlands had 400,000 doses available last week and only 250,000 takers. Stupid!
>> The AZ mis-information/scare surely played a role there.
>>
> 
> Bloody hell. :-(
> 
> I didn't know that things were that bad. :-(

Meanwhile the AZ vaccine has still not been approved in the USA, the
latest kerfluffle being that an independent board thinks its efficacy
might only be 69%-74% rather than the 79% claimed by AZ after their US
trial.  Note that even the lower end of that is still higher efficacy
than the J & J vaccine, which *has* been approved. I think we finally
gave some of our AZ stockpiles to Canada and Mexico.