Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

My wife 64 works in a school and is shielding no vaccine yet.
So school short of staff!
My mate 50 got his vaccine Thursday because he works in an opticians . He glazes the frames so nowhere near the public.
Could someone please explain this to me.
 
AstraZeneca vaccine is rejected for 'old people' in the EU?

I assume it is because it hasn't been tested? More for the young ones to go around.
 
AstraZeneca vaccine is rejected for 'old people' in the EU?

I assume it is because it hasn't been tested? More for the young ones to go around.

Approx 1000 of the 4800 patients in the UK study and 420/4800 in the Brazil study over 56 years, and only half of them received the actual vaccine, so not a very convincing data set. The AZ data is quite frustrating. They have what os probably a pretty good vaccine, but some of the execution of the study has been clumsy, and what looks like several quite separate studies have been combined into one rather unwieldy data set. It looks a lot like studies designed by academics rather than pharma, which usually doesn't allow these elements to crop in.

The MHRA approach to it has been a bit odd. There is at least as much data to support a low dose-standard dose regimen as there is to support a delayed interval. The EMA and FDA have been very much less persuaded overall. I think if the EMA have decided to withhold it from older patients, that is fairly rational, and may also reflect their concern that the efficacy is a bit lighter than Pfizer/Moderna.
 
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