Posted on 03/11/2021 8:45:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Denmark, Norway and Iceland on Thursday temporarily suspended the use of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine over concerns about patients developing post-jab blood clots, as the manufacturer and Europe's medicines watchdog insisted the vaccine was safe. Denmark was first to announce its suspension, "following reports of serious cases of blood clots" among people who had received the vaccine, the country's Health Authority said in a statement.
It stressed the move was precautionary, and that "it has not been determined, at the time being, that there is a link between the vaccine and the blood clots".
As of March 9, 22 cases of blood clots had been reported among more than three million people vaccinated in the European Economic Area, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said.
Austria announced on Monday that it had suspended the use of a batch of AstraZeneca vaccines after a 49-year-old nurse died of "severe blood coagulation problems" days after receiving an anti-Covid shot.
Four other European countries—Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Luxemburg—have also suspended the use of vaccines from this batch, which was sent to 17 European countries and consisted of one million jabs.
Denmark however suspended the use of all of its AstraZeneca supply, as did Iceland and Norway in subsequent announcements on Thursday citing similar concerns.
On Wednesday, the EMA said a preliminary probe showed that the batch of AstraZeneca vaccines used in Austria was likely not to blame for the nurse's death.
"This is a super-cautious approach based on some isolated reports in Europe," said Stephen Evans, a professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
"The risk and benefit balance is still very much in favor of the vaccine," he said.
AstraZeneca, an Anglo-Swedish company which developed the vaccine with Oxford University, defended the safety of its product.
"The safety of the vaccine has been extensively studied in phase III clinical trials and peer-reviewed data confirms the vaccine has been generally well tolerated," a spokesman for the group told AFP.
Britain, whose widely-praised vaccine rollout has been largely underpinned by the AstraZeneca jab, also defended it as "both safe and effective".
The Danish suspension, which will be reviewed after two weeks, is expected to slow down the country's vaccination campaign.
Denmark now expects to have its entire adult population vaccinated by mid-August instead of early July, the health authority said.
"We are of course saddened by this news," said Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.
Frederiksen, who has pushed for the production of more vaccines and has formed a controversial alliance with Austria and Israel to do so, defended the Danish health authorities' decision.
"There is always a risk associated with vaccines," she told reporters.
"Things have gone well in Denmark, but there are some risks linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine that need to be examined more closely. That seems to me to be the right way to proceed."
Danish Health Authority director Soren Brostrom stressed that "we have not terminated the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine, we are just pausing its use".
"There is broad documentation proving that the vaccine is both safe and efficient," Brostrom said.
"But both we and the Danish Medicines Agency must act on information about possible serious side effects, both in Denmark and in other European countries."
Denmark said one person had died after receiving the vaccine. The EMA has launched an investigation into that death.
In the Scandinavian country of 5.8 million, around 25 percent of those who have received a first dose were given the AstraZeneca jab.
In total, 3.8 percent of the population has received two doses of vaccine and 13.4 percent at least one dose.
J&J vaccine uses the same technology....
RE: J&J vaccine uses the same technology....
We shall see about J&J in a few months. It took three months after approval for Astra Zeneca’s vaccine’s safety effects to be manifest.
AstraZeneca’s vaccine as well as Johnson and Johnson’s uses adenovirus-vectored technology.... Completely different than Moderna and Pfizers MRNA based vaccines.
None of these “vaccines” would have ben approved if they had undergone animal trials. We are seeing a repeat of the Nazi and Japanese medical experimentation on humans.
Do you think the latter mRNA (Moderna/Pfizer) vaccines are safer?
Yes, I personally would only get one of those two (Moderna and Pfizer). mRNA is the future.
If you could explain why the latter two are safer and if Johnson’s inevitably will run into the same issues as Astra...eek!
We have now much better info than animal trials.
There are whole countries that can be investigated for any given vaccine.
Over 1/3 of the British population have had their first shot of the AstraZeneca for instance. Any widespread problems should have manifested by now.
Ditto for Israel vis a vis Pfizer.
Or for that matter US states vs Pfizer/Moderna.
DUH? Your Overton Window now includes human experimentation? We have data on therapeutics that says the “vaccines” are not necessary. All of the therapeutics have been officially approved as safe. HCQ is safe for pregnant women and babies for the past 60 years.
I don’t know about the other vaccines, but the mRNA vaccines did have animal trials. The only difference is those animal trials ran concurrent with human trials. There was a lengthy article either in Science or Medium that explained it.
Human experimentation (by a strict standard? other nations have different standards, and much more lax ones prevailed in the past) HAS already happened.
The process of approval of penicillin and sulfa drugs and classic vaccines vs say smallpox certainly would not have passed muster today.
Whether it should have or not is moot at this point. The information is there now.
They ALL cause it. It’s just that many deep staters, including Gates, bought stock in Pfizer and Moderna BEFORE the pandemic and they won’t tell the truth about these “vaccines.”
And I am in favor of early human voluntary testing on many drugs, for which there is a desperate need by select patients for whom there are no likely alternatives. And also for this disastrous Covid situation.
Looking at it from the point of view of the volunteers - if there is a Horatius Cocles willing to hold the bridge, metaphorically, at the risk of his life, then let him do so, and I might be inclined to join him. There aren’t many opportunities to go out in glory, these days, for men over 60. Even if the odds aren’t so fearful.
“Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods”
Here is a good book for you! https://smile.amazon.com/Monkey-Handlers-G-Gordon-Liddy/dp/0312051271/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=g+gordon+liddy+books&qid=1615484821&sr=8-6
Except all the therapeutics you mention are not for corona virus and provide partial assistance. All the HCQ ivermectin acolytes always forget that little part.
Vaccine bump for later....
Please! Take the vaccine!
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