Coronavirus doctor’s diary: Don’t ask me which vaccine is best, pleaseon February 21, 2021 at 12:11 am

Dr John Wright says he’s often asked which vaccine is best, but the answer is it’s too early to say.

The concept of consumer choice when it comes to immunisation, or even medications, is alien. No-one asks about the brand of their annual flu jab, or which company produces the MMR vaccine that will protect their precious children. But the intense global relief that greeted the Pfizer covid vaccine, and then Moderna, AstraZeneca and most recently Novavax and Janssen vaccines (though the last two are still awaiting regulatory approval) has created brand awareness in a population that has had a crash course in epidemiology and infectious diseases.