AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine should only be given to people aged between 18 and 64, Germany’s vaccine committee has recommended, a day ahead of a decision by European regulators on whether to approve the drugmaker’s shot.
The recommendation for Germany comes as the European Union, which is scrambling for vaccine supplies, warned AstraZeneca to deliver shots as promised despite a shortfall in its first-quarter vaccine output caused by a glitch in its European supply chain.
“There are currently insufficient data available to assess the vaccine efficacy from 65 years of age,” the German committee, also known as STIKO, said in a draft recommendation made available by the German health ministry on Thursday.
BERLIN German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged a "fair" distribution of coronavirus vaccines across the world on Tuesday, warning that the memories of countries left out in the race for the life-saving jabs would persist."Money is one thing, but the other thing in a time of scarcity is the availability of the vaccine. Here it's about a fair distribution, and not about a
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