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It causes more side effects, is not effective against the South African Corona variant, and is not recommended for older people – reports on AstraZeneca have not exactly built public confidence in the vector vaccine in recent days. Many experts now say wrongly. They come out in defense of the vaccine.
With AstraZeneca, at least against the parent virus form and the British variant, “excellent protection can be achieved,” says Bernd Lamprecht, the board of pulmonology at Kepler University Hospital in Linz. The study data would clearly prove it. He himself had been vaccinated with the Biontech / Pfizer vaccine, when “there was no other vaccine available,” he would be “immediately vaccinated with AstraZeneca,” says Lamprecht. Also “I would personally recommend it to everyone”.
The director of the Clinic for Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Vienna, Markus Zeitlinger, defended the AstraZeneca vaccine at ORF. Its protective effect is comparable to that of other vaccines. Although there are actually more side effects after the first vaccine than with other vaccines, there are fewer after the second. With Biontech / Pfizer and Moderna it’s the exact opposite, says Zeitlinger. Zeitlinger does not want to ignore the fact that AstraZeneca is less effective against the South African mutant than the other vaccines: there is simply no comparison data for the other agents. “A comparison would be a bit unfair.”
Microbiologist Rainer Gattringer from the Wels-Grieskirchen Clinic does not believe that the AstraZeneca vaccine is presented as the worst vaccine. “That is not true, it shows above all a very good effectiveness in preventing serious forms,” said Gattringer at ORF.
In principle, a vaccine, regardless of the vaccine, cannot be the only solution in the fight against the pandemic, says Bernd Lamprecht. It represents “additional protection against at least some virus variants,” but is not currently a substitute for other Covid-19 measures.
