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> it is simply weasel words.

That is not very nice to say.

!g astrazeneca 60% effective site:.eu :

First hit : https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ema-recommends-covid-19-va...

Please note I blame them for the general narrative around AZ as being not trustworthy. It is very clear to see in comments from the Dutch public ( and I have seen similar sentiments at our DE neighbors ).

It does not help our press is not very critical, I'll give you that.

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Sorry, I didn't mean to be offensive with the "weasel words" comment, simply that is the term for this kind of "much quoted figure" kind of text (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word). Thanks for providing a link to the EMA press release though.

On the note of that press release, the title of the page is "EMA recommends COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca for authorisation in the EU", which I wouldn't consider anti-AZ, and reading the text it states in the same paragraph that it's talking about "reduction in the number of symptomatic COVID-19 cases in people given the vaccine".

Anyway, I didn't mean to offend, just calling out what I saw, others may have a different opinion to me of course.

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