<story><title>Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a &apos;precaution&apos;</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-germany-astrazeneca/update-1-germany-to-halt-astrazeneca-vaccinations-health-ministry-idUSL8N2LD4T9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giantandroids</author><text>You do have to wonder if some of this is politically driven. Germany are losing hundreds of life&amp;#x27;s a day, while in the meantime the UK has administrated 23 million doses (not sure the ratio of those that were AstraZeneca) and not recorded a single fatality or adverse reaction and are seeing infection rates &amp;#x2F; deaths drop. I can understand caution under normal circumstances, but nothing is normal right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drcode</author><text>A problem with bureaucracies is that they often care deeply if people die from an action they are responsible for, but are fine if there are massive deaths due to inaction.</text></comment>
<story><title>Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a &apos;precaution&apos;</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-germany-astrazeneca/update-1-germany-to-halt-astrazeneca-vaccinations-health-ministry-idUSL8N2LD4T9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>giantandroids</author><text>You do have to wonder if some of this is politically driven. Germany are losing hundreds of life&amp;#x27;s a day, while in the meantime the UK has administrated 23 million doses (not sure the ratio of those that were AstraZeneca) and not recorded a single fatality or adverse reaction and are seeing infection rates &amp;#x2F; deaths drop. I can understand caution under normal circumstances, but nothing is normal right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nursie</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure at this point. When it was one suspicious death, countries suspending the vaccine definitely seemed like an overreaction, and unfortunately this particular vaccine has been something of a political football and subject of a lot of noise.&lt;p&gt;But as more blood-clot deaths emerge... you gotta think caution is wise.&lt;p&gt;OTOH yes, we in the UK have administered a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt; of this stuff, and you&amp;#x27;d think someone would have noticed a serious side effect like this. So far reports from the UK seem to show no greater incidence of blood clot problems than would be expected without the vaccine.&lt;p&gt;Difficult to call, but I hope it&amp;#x27;s all being investigated thoroughly.</text></comment>