There is no end to the uncertainty surrounding the AstraZeneca vaccine in Germany. After the recommendation of the Standing Vaccination Committee (Stiko) on Tuesday that only those over 60 be vaccinated with it, those in charge now recommend to those who have already taken the first dose with AstraZeneca to take the second with another preparation.
There are two other options in Germany: the BioNTech / Pfizer vaccine and the Moderna vaccine.
Speaking to Der Spiegel magazine, as reported by Deutsche Welle, the chairman of the Standing Committee on Vaccination, Thomas Mertens, said of the potential risks for those taking both doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine that they could not yet be extracted safely. few citizens have completed the vaccination process: “I consider that those who have taken the first dose with AstraZeneca they should do the second one 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 to protect people after being vaccinated with two different preparations. I hope we will have more information at our disposal soon. “
Merkel has been aware of thrombosis for days

Meanwhile, according to the news website of the second program of the public television ZDF, Chancellor Merkel and Chancellor Helge Brown were informed last Friday by the Standing Vaccination Committee that the vaccination of people under 60 should be stopped with AstraZeneca . However, it took four whole days for the Ministry of Health to announce the relevant decision. Note that in the interval from Friday to Tuesday almost 315,000 people have been 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 delay by the chancellor, stressing that “before a pan-German decision was taken, Angela Merkel sought the opinion of the Ethics Council and the National Academy of Sciences.”
However, the Vaccination Committee’s objections to the vaccination of people under 60 with AstraZeneca leaked to scientific circles shortly after the Chancellor was informed. Apparently for this reason so the clinics in Berlin and Brandenburg(including the Charité University Clinic in Berlin) and Munich clinics decided to suspend vaccinations for people under 60 early on Tuesday, forcing Health Minister Jens Spann and then the chancellor and local prime ministers to announce in the evening of the same day the cessation of vaccinations.
Do those who get vaccinated transmit the virus?
But there is another issue that has long preoccupied health professionals in Germany. No one knows for sure whether or not vaccinated people transmit the virus. The head of the German Foundation for the Protection of Patients, Eugen Britz, 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 even added that the Robert Koch Epidemiological Institute, as the country’s leading institution in dealing with the pandemic, should finally take a stand because without a scientifically substantiated assessment, the data published by the pharmaceutical companies have no value.

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