Hacker News Reader

Did they even compute/estimate how many more people are going to die because of this decision, or how many will be saved?

Also, since experts have said that the side-effects occur because of an immune-reaction to the adenovirus that is used as the delivery mechanism of the vaccine, what are the chances that the people who have side-effects would die (or at least have the same kind of complications) from covid?

View on HN

Denmark are done giving vaccines to 65 and older on Friday. How many do you think can die in a few days that a vaccine could have saved?

The current official Danish vaccine calendar [1] (updated April 14) estimates that the group of citizens between 74 and 65 years will complete vaccination end of May.

[1] https://www.sst.dk/-/media/Udgivelser/2021/Corona/Vaccinatio... (in Danish)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com