Rants and WTF are you talking about and Coronavirus!

[McAdonis]

This is two days old. Before announcing that current lockdown will last until April 18. Hard lockdown between April 1 and 5.

Two German local government organizations on Sunday called for a more flexible benchmark to be applied when it comes to assessing coronavirus lockdown rules.

Association of German Cities President Burkhard Jung told the Funke Mediengruppe newspaper group that there was widespread dissatisfaction with pandemic policies at a local level. "I am worried that the coronavirus policy of the federal and state governments is losing support on the ground even among the mayors," Jung said.

"We should introduce a new coronavirus indicator that also looks at the vaccination rate, the burden of the intensive care units and case mortality."

The assessment was shared by the German Association of Towns and Municipalities, whose chief executive Gerd Landsberg told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper that measures should apply to clearly identifiable hotspots.

https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-covid-rate-exceeds-critical-100-in-100000-rate/a-56942467

[Pistons]

The 8% figure is not the easy side effect that seems to go away within days such as fever, headache and vomiting. Those numbers are at close to 100%. The 8% numbers are side effects that will most likely stay with you. While the 1.6% serious side effects may be life threatening at one point. Mainly related to blood clots.

Don't cherry pick your math comparisons please!

[Rocky V]

In Denmark they said that they will reopen pretty much everything when all risk groups and all people over 50 have been offered vaccination.

I wonder if this is what other countries will do.

Yes, that sounds sensible. Once most people at risk have been vaccinated, governments will open everything up again. The main objective is to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed and reduce the death rate.

[ExpatLover]

In Denmark they said that they will reopen pretty much everything when all risk groups and all people over 50 have been offered vaccination.

I wonder if this is what other countries will do.

Why not but all this remains me what happened in Europe during summer 2020, everything was open, people enjoy holidays like there was no pandemy and in October lock down. Before taking any decisions the politicians have to know how efficient the vaccines are, how long they protect and against which virus. Today all those aspects are under scrutiny and nobody is able to predict the results.

[Pistons]

For the moment something like 10 % of the symptomatic cases still suffer from long covid 12 weeks after the acute symptoms.

Who knows if they'll heal one day? Maybe they'll be disabled forever. 10% is higher than 1.6 %.

But then you should compare the 10% to the 8% number. And given vaccines are given to everyone, I think this is still bad math.

[PaulInZurich]

In Denmark they said that they will reopen pretty much everything when all risk groups and all people over 50 have been offered vaccination.

I wonder if this is what other countries will do.

[BigBuddy69]

My bad. 1.6% dangerous side effects. Still high!

For the moment something like 10 % of the symptomatic cases still suffer from long covid 12 weeks after the acute symptoms.

Who knows if they'll heal one day? Maybe they'll be disabled forever. 10% is higher than 1.6 %.

[Rocky V]

Further investigations were never necessary, AZ is EMA and WHO approved. It's purely political moves by Macron etc that are throwing their dummies out of the pram because the Brits put their order in first and have done a great job with the vaccines.

Who said they were not necessary? They observed some rare clots in some German patients and you think the German regulator should look away? Put yourself in the guy who has to give permission to use a certain vaccine, wouldn't you want to investigate? Then yes, other countries followed Germany for the same reasons, so that they can avoid protests from their own population. It has nothing to do with the Brits, not everything is about the Brits. The Brits mainly got their vaccine supplies from India, which has also reduced exports but I don't see the same animosity towards them.

[Pistons]

My bad. 1.6% dangerous side effects. Still high!

[Pistons]

The difference is that some Pfizer recipients saw more benign types of venous blood clots and at a lower incidence than the background incidence observed in the general population. Perhaps more importantly, the AZ vaccine is being implicated in a much more potentially harmful type of clot: CSVT, a specific cerebral thrombus. The low incidence and small sample size is too low to make a precise comparison to the background incidence but the potential severity of this complication warrants investigation and rule out of a causative effect.

Low incidents rate? 8% of all AZ vaccines given here has reported side effects. 20% of which are severe. Meaning 2% of the total gives dangerous side effects that can lead to hospitalization. That is anything but a low number. And worse than covid itself! But we all know that in most places in this world, people hesitate to report on side effects. And sometimes it goes a long time before they do. And by then the doctor might come up with some alternate reason for it.

[ExpatLover]

Further investigations were never necessary, AZ is EMA and WHO approved. It's purely political moves by Macron etc that are throwing their dummies out of the pram because the Brits put their order in first and have done a great job with the vaccines.

I am old enough to remember so many medical scandals in the last 40 years. Let us wait several years to see if really the Brits have done a great job. Nobody knows what could be the side effects of the vaccines, what is the real efficiency, only the time will be able to answer. England like France were powerful countries leading the western year but this time is gone and today they are just average countries with a lot of problems unable to protect their citizen correctly. Like for all this kind of virus we will see a strong decrease during summer, starting from October we will see how efficient the vaccines are.

[Sirioja]

Why playing with people lives? Better not to overreact, nobody knows what could be the side effects in 3 or 5 years from all those vaccines, never there was so a hurry to bring a vaccine on the market. Second nobody knows today how effective they really are in 6 months, 12 months and against the new variants which will probably pop up. What is sure it that the vaccine strategies are quite different for example in China you can t get the vaccine if you are over 59, in Europe we start to vaccinate the old people, if I look how China manage the pandemy I am more willing to believe the Chinese strategy.

So in China they don't protect weakest who are oldest? They prefer to protect those who should be strong enough to resist and make own inside soldiers.

[Ararat]

Further investigations were never necessary, AZ is EMA and WHO approved. It's purely political moves by Macron etc that are throwing their dummies out of the pram because the Brits put their order in first and have done a great job with the vaccines.

Mate, you must be English.

I don't understand why you make such a big deal out of this except if this about your national pride. Something happened and a few countries stopped vaccination a few days to investigate. Nothing to see. Move along.

[Mursenary]

Sorry I do what I want, and advise you to visit your ophthalmologist. I checked again in 2020 for Israel and UK both decrease were far faster and stronger before the vaccination campaign. Always the same story when the reality doesn't fit what you think the reality doesn't exist.

At no point in 2020 did incidence decrease faster than in 2021, a month after the vaccine was first administered in the UK. In Israel, you are correct.

[Abox79]

The EU has never suspended any Covid vaccine. Some member states suspended AZ vaccine for further investigations, which have now been resolved.

Further investigations were never necessary, AZ is EMA and WHO approved. It's purely political moves by Macron etc that are throwing their dummies out of the pram because the Brits put their order in first and have done a great job with the vaccines.