UK Covid death toll

[Borin' Baggie]

Some concerning news about the AstraZeneca vaccine emerging
Some are saying only effective on 8% on over 65’s.
But Astra Zeneca are refuting those claims.

Wouldn't worry about it, the three likely scenarios are that the German politician who leaked it has misunderstood data from the EMA (not understanding what lower bounds are), is mixing up the numbers tested with the efficacy rate (8.25% of those tested in the Oxford trial were over 65) or is being a twat (deliberately using the lower bound to make the vaccine look bad). The EMA decision is being made on Friday and we'll have a better understanding of things then, I'd imagine they may be cautious for use on over 65s with a preference to the other vaccines while promoting it for under 65s.

More concerning is the EU putting pressure on Pfizer and Moderna to notify all deliveries outside the EU to third countries (now the UK) with a view to withholding deliveries as a result of AZ apparently moving significant quantities of the EU stockpiles of their vaccine made in Belgium to the UK resulting in a shortage of the AZ vaccine in the EU. Now if Sturgeon wasn't a moron and hadn't leaked the UK vaccine strategy this wouldn't be happening.

So it appears to be that one. Did say it was nothing to worry about