Covid s economic impact could kill an extra 40,000 people over 50 years, modelling suggests
Unemployment, reduced incomes and increased anxiety likely to add major extra burden of deaths, scientists believe.
29 January 2021 • 6:45pm
A senior Government adviser said a route out of lockdown should be visible from the middle of next month
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The economic impact of the coronavirus crisis could kill an extra 40,000 people over the next 50 years, Government modelling has found.
Unemployment, reduced incomes and wealth and increased anxiety are likely to add a major extra burden of deaths on top of those killed during the pandemic itself, scientists believe.
AstraZeneca vaccine only recommended for people under 65, German health officials say
Germany’s vaccine commission has recommended that the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford should not be given to people older than 65 years, the German Interior Ministry said Thursday.
The Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) at Germany’s Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the country’s main public health authority, has found there is insufficient data on the effectiveness of the vaccine for this age group, according to a statement from the ministry.
“Due to the small number of study participants in the age group ≥65 years, no conclusion can be made regarding efficacy and safety in the elderly. This vaccine is therefore currently recommended by STIKO only for persons aged 18-64 years,” the panel said in its recommendation.
Boris Johnson and health experts defend AstraZeneca jab as Germany moves to limit Covid vaccine to under-65s Barney Davis
Boris Johnson and Public Health England have defended the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine after German experts recommended it should only be offered to under 65s.
The Prime Minister and health experts spoke in support of the jab following the draft recommendation from Germany s vaccination advisory committee, which argued there was insufficient data to recommend it for those aged 65 and over.
Dr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisations at PHE, acknowledged there had been too few cases of coronavirus in older people in Phase 3 clinical trials to determine the level of efficacy in this age group, but said other data on immune response had been reassuring .
Boris Johnson takes heat for saying U.K. did everything it could about covid
Karla Adam and William Booth, The Washington Post
Jan. 27, 2021
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LONDON - After Prime Minister Boris Johnson said his government had truly done everything we could to save the 100,000 lives taken by the coronavirus so far in Britain, a broad swath of scientists, public health experts, opposition politicians and ordinary citizens heaped scorn on the prideful assertion.
Johnson rightly boasted in Parliament on Wednesday that Britain is a world leader at rolling out vaccines - and is the envy of Europe and America, having giving a first vaccine dose to more than 10% of its adult population.