Yeah, and it's not just the UK, the US or Israel. I mean, look at how well Serbia has been managing to get people vaccinated quickly. Or Chile. If Serbia can get vaccines into their population, Germany should be able to, but apparently not.

At least it looks like they'll continue to use AstraZeneca now. Though it's really depressing how much the handling of the whole issue hurt the confidence in the vaccine.

I get that you want to keep an eye on the side effects, and it's awful bad luck for the people who got these blood clots, but considering how many people Covid kills and a lot of those seem to die from blood clotting complications, I can't help but think that these people might have had the same kind of mystery factors that cause deadly covid outcomes in younger people too, and with far more people. I think even in my fairly low risk middle age group it's still more than one in a thousand chance to end up dead from covid if I get it (not to mention possible long term disabilities and what not), so by orders of magnitude more likely to end up dead from that than from these possible freak vaccine side effects.