The AZ trials have actually tried a lot of different strategies, most of them intentionally, there is still a lot of data to come. But even with nearly 20000 people in the last set of data, the number of hospitalisations is still quite low, so it takes time to get safe conclusions and make discoveries. The time for making discoveries may now have passed, you need plenty of infections, hospitalisations, and deaths before you can draw safe conclusions.It's worth them trying things that the manufacturer trials didn't have time or resources to do.
Manufacturer trials also couldn't test mix and match with others.
So far so good.
I'd be happy if they gave them away even, as long as they don't hoard them while others are left waiting, until we see them though we can't really know if it's true, governments are great at making claims and promises that are near impossible to verifyWe Danes over-killed in the same manner / ratios on vaccinations, the surplus ones i do hope will be sold on, but they will probably just be given away at the Danish tax payers expense.
Made sense when it was expected that most vaccines wouldn't work, but that is no longer the case.not sure what the thinking is as to why we need 150 million doses with a population of 25 million people, something doesn't sound right
https://au.news.yahoo.com/covid-vaccine-announcement-10-million-pfizer-vaccine-030038449.html?
yeah it doesn't make sense to me, wait and see what happens I guess, at the moment it's just hot air from politicians so anyone's guess
yeah it was a couple of different options on the table, maybe there's some clause for late delivery that allows them to decline, seems overkill to have so many booked unless perhaps there's something they're not telling us (entirely possible), does any government in any country ever actually tell the public everything, doesn't seem soWhile the quantity makes no sense, FWIW it seems to be a mix of vaccine manufacturers. Psrhaps the Covax involvement has something to do with the quantity?
"The total number includes 20 million Pfizer doses, 53.8 million Oxford/AstraZeneca doses, 51 million Novavax doses, and 25.5 as part of the vaccine distribution alliance Covax, Health Minister Greg Hunt said in a joint press conference."
Questions have been raised about Australia's reliance on the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the fight against COVID-19, with calls for the Federal Government to secure more doses of higher-efficacy jabs instead.
"I don't think Australia has managed to secure enough vaccines to be comfortable, we really do need to diversify our vaccine portfolio," said Zoe Hyde, an epidemiologist at the University of Western Australia.
like anywhere, there's a lot of misinformation and opinion and not a lot of fact, hard to get straight answersSeems like your people have been listening to the EU anti-Astrazeneca propaganda!
AMEN! I'm not sure they even know a lot of things themselves. Given the gravity of a pandemic I seriously doubt they would tell people anything which would reduce their confidence in any government's programs. I think that only time will prove things outdoes any government in any country ever actually tell the public everything, doesn't seem so
No, we already have enough data to know that an annual Cold+Flu jab will be enough, and just the first jab is expected to give protection from hospitalisation for life, which might be considered good enough anyway.It is possible that any immunity will be so short lived that vaccination will be needed multiple times a year.
People have caught covid more than once.
Much better than Canada!not sure what the thinking is as to why we need 150 million doses with a population of 25 million people, something doesn't sound right
https://au.news.yahoo.com/covid-vaccine-announcement-10-million-pfizer-vaccine-030038449.html?
Canada has purchased some 200 million doses for its population of 38 million.
has nonetheless elected to take 1.9 million doses from COVAX.
...Canada is the only G7 country on the list.
The Canadian government is facing backlash for its decision to take 1.9 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from COVAX