President Macron says AstraZeneca vaccine ineffective on people over 65

[mellowyellow]

French president Emmanual Macron has astonishingly claimed the AstraZeneca vaccine is 'almost ineffective' on people who are over 65 years of age. Speaking to reporters only hours before the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended the vaccine for adults of all ages, Macron said there was 'very little information' available for the vaccine developed by the British-Swedish company and Oxford University.

'What I can tell you officially today is that the early results we have are not encouraging for 60 to 65-year-old people concerning AstraZeneca,' he said…….

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ective-65s.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline

 

[horseless carriage]

Are we talking France here? The home of Louis Pasteur? Is this vaccine scepticism or just Brexit sour grapes?

 

[Laurie]

I'm afraid his evidence, and qualifications, are less than convincing!

However, I had the jab this week so if I'm no longer posting in a month's time you'll know he was right!

 

[horseless carriage]

There was a brilliant cartoon doing the rounds when President Trump suggested that bleach was the way to treat Covid19. The cartoon was that of the President being strapped to an operating table and a nurse about to inject a massive syringe, full of bleach, into the presidential posterior.

 

[hollydolly]

Ha ! I missed where Macron the little man with the Napoleon complex and Brexit chip on his shoulder, qualified as a Doctor...

 

[Butterfly]

Ha ! I missed where Macron the little man with the Napoleon complex and Brexit chip on his shoulder, qualified as a Doctor...

I missed that part, too.

 

[Capt Lightning]

I read that he had to admit that he had no actual proof. It also appears that the German health ministry has said that statements about the low efficacy of the Oxford - Astrazeneca vaccine were untrue. (possibly they are afraid that it will not be approved for use in older people).

Definite case of sour grapes - possibly because they were late in ordering the vaccine and they are having supply problems with European plants that produce both the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines. Meanwhile the UK is forging ahead with mass vaccinations.

 

[mellowyellow]

Now there's another opinion

The boss of the pharmaceutical firm Astra Zeneca making the Oxford vaccine has said that having a three month gaps between jabs "is absolutely the right way to go".

The independent scientific body, the JCVI, that advises the governments in the UK has recommended a 12 week gap between first and second doses of the vaccines in the UK. He said the first dose alone gave 100% protection against severe disease and hospitalisation. He said the second dose was only needed to give longer-term protection. "I think the UK one-dose strategy is absolutely the right way to go, at least for our vaccine," he said.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/covid-coronavirus-astrazeneca-vaccine-jab-19708692

 

[peramangkelder]

Where are his Doctor Of Medicine or Bachelor Of Medicine degrees

 

[horseless carriage]

Where are his Doctor Of Medicine or Bachelor Of Medicine degrees

You don't need such qualifications when you are the French President. You just need to know how to service any number of mistresses whilst at the same time, keeping your name out of the press. After all, France is a Catholic country. Not for them the first Brexit when we split with Rome.

 

[peramangkelder]

You don't need such qualifications when you are the French President. You just need to know how to service any number of mistresses whilst at the same time, keeping your name out of the press. After all, France is a Catholic country. Not for them the first Brexit when we split with Rome.

@horseless carriage you are probably more right than you know