Posted on 05/11/2024 7:08:29 PM PDT by RandFan
Last week’s announcement that AstraZeneca would no longer market its Covid vaccine brings an end to one of the century’s most remarkable medical stories. Created within a year of the arrival of the pandemic, the AZ vaccine was cheap, easily stored and transported, and helped stave off humanitarian crises in Asia and Latin America, where many countries could not afford the more expensive mRNA vaccines that were being snapped up by rich western nations. It is estimated that it saved 6.3 million lives in 2021 alone.
Yet from the start the vaccine – created by research teams led by Professor Andy Pollard and Professor Sarah Gilbert at the Oxford Vaccine Centre – was dogged by controversy. It was linked to blood clots, US observers criticised protocols for its trials, and French president Emmanuel Macron claimed it was “quasi-ineffective” for people over 65. In fact, the vaccine is particularly effective for the elderly.
In very rare cases, the AZ vaccine can cause blood clots. According to the British Heart Foundation, one study in the BMJ showed that for every 10 million people vaccinated with AstraZeneca there would be a total of 73 extra cases of blood clots. By contrast 10 million Covid cases would trigger thousands of extra blood clot cases.
Many of the anxieties about the vaccine stemmed from national self-interests. However, others derive from the nature of vaccines themselves, and this raises issues that are likely to re-emerge with the arrival of any new pandemic in coming years, scientists have warned.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
. . . its remarkable success [AT MAKING MONEY] must not be forgotten.
Depends on what your definition of “success” is.
(Wow ... Guardian STILL gaslighting...like the few remaining FR $hot $hills.)
its remarkable success was in bilking the us government and taxpayers, nothing more...
The Graun’s definition of “remarkable success” is typically lib-nuanced.
article states: “It is estimated that it saved 6.3 million lives in 2021 alone.”
prove it.
Analysis: Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge is no more – but its remarkable success must not be forgotten
Yeah, it was successful
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at killing people off.
You'd think after this many years, they'd realize that FReepers are not buying their propaganda.
I guess as long as the paychecks keep coming in.....
What would be interesting is a drug company that made a Covid vaccine that was nothing more than a shot which contained Vitamin C, Vitamin D and Ivermectin and repackaged it as a Covid vaccine, telling everyone you needed a shot and a couple of boosters and everything is safe and effective might have actually been true
Special place in hell for Facist POS like like Robin McKie.
What a pathetic pile of propaganda. Nothing but unprovable assertions and conjecture.
And this is journalism.
Pure shilling for Pharma. Hope this guy is proud ??
Dr. Malone was on with Charlie Kirk a couple days ago explaining in further detail what was going on over there. The stats are a lot worse than this article states, the evidence is showing that studies make you MORE likely to get covid if you had the clot shot. The clots are what they are getting sued for.
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