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Endless in Germany the uncertainty about AstraZeneca vaccine, notes in Deutsche Welle analysis as the country’s Immunization Committee now recommends that those under 60 years of age vaccinated with AstraZeneca not the second dose with BioNTech / Pfizer or Moderna.
Following the establishment of the German Standing Committee on Vaccination (Stiko) last Tuesday, only those over 60 years of age should be vaccinated with AstraZeneca. recommend now to those who have already taken the first dose with AstraZeneca to make the second with another preparation.
In Germany there are two other options: the BioNTech / Pfizer vaccine and the Moderna vaccine.
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Talking to the magazine Mirror the president of the Standing Committee on Vaccination, Thomas mertenshe said about them risks that may occur for those who received both doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine that no safe conclusions can yet be drawn, since very few citizens have completed the vaccination process:
“I think that those who have taken the first dose of AstraZeneca should receive the second dose with another similar vaccine. Animal experiments show that the immune system responds in the same way. However, it must be scientifically examined how effective it is in protecting people after having been vaccinated with two different preparations. I hope that we will have more information available to us soon. “
Merkel has been aware of the thrombosis for days.
Meanwhile, as revealed by the news website of the second public television program ZDF, the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and Chancellor Helge Brown, I had already been informed Since last Friday by the Permanent Committee on Vaccination, vaccination of those under 60 years of age with AstraZeneca must be suspended.
However, the Ministry of Health took four full days to announce the relevant decision.
It should be noted that in the period from Friday to Tuesday, almost 315,000 people were vaccinated with AstraZeneca without being aware that there are serious scientific objections to the preparation with which they are vaccinated. Speaking to ZDFheute, a government spokesman explained the chancellor’s delay and emphasized that “before a pan-German decision was made, Angela Merkel sought the opinion of the Ethics Council and the National Academy of Sciences.”
The Vaccination Committee objections for vaccinating people under 60 years of age with AstraZeneca filtered out however, in scientific circles shortly after the Chancellor was informed. Apparently for this reason both clinics Berlin and Brandenburg (including the Charité University Clinic in Berlin) and the Munich Clinics, decided to suspend vaccinations of people under 60 years of age early Tuesday morning, forcing the Minister of Health, Jens Span, and then the chancellor and local prime ministers to announce on the night of the same day the cessation of vaccines.
Who gets vaccinated transmit the virus?
But there is another issue that has long preoccupied healthcare professionals in Germany, as Deutsche Welle points out.
No one knows for sure if vaccinated people transmit the virus. The director of the German Institute for Patient Protection, Eugene Bridge, He told the German news agency dpa that “it is unbearable that the German government has not yet given an answer to this crucial question.” He added, in fact, that the Robert Koch Epidemiological Institute as the country’s leading institution in the fight against the pandemic should finally take place because without a scientifically substantiated evaluation the data published by pharmaceutical companies is worthless.
