Wasn't this how the nazis started , the old and the infirm
AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine should not be given to people over the age of 65, Germany's vaccine committee has said, citing a lack of sufficient data to recommend use in older age groups.
"There are currently insufficient data available to assess the vaccine efficacy from 65 years of age," the committee said in the resolution made available by the German health ministry on Thursday.
"The AstraZeneca vaccine, unlike the mRNA vaccines, should only be offered to people aged 18-64 years at each stage."
The European Medicines Agency is expected to make a decision on whether to approve AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine on Friday.
However, Oxford University has rejected claims that the AstraZeneca vaccine is not effective in over-65s.
In a response to earlier reports which claimed the vaccine had only an eight per cent efficacy among older populations, the university said: "There is no basis for the claims of very low efficacy of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine which have been circulating in the media.
"The results of the clinical trials have already been published transparently in five peer-reviewed scientific publications showing similar immune responses in younger and older adults and a good safety profile, and high efficacy in younger adults."