Posted on 03/15/2021 8:27:47 AM PDT by RandFan
BERLIN (AP) — The German government said Monday that it’s suspending the use of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine over new reports of dangerous blood clots in connection with the shot.
The Health Ministry said the decision was taken as a “precaution” and on the advice of Germany’s national vaccine regulator, the Paul Ehrlich Institute, which called for further investigation of the cases.
In a statement, the ministry said the European Medicines Agency would decide “whether and how the new information will affect the authorization of the vaccine.”
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But I thought any concern over the Covid vaccines was an anti-science conspiracy theory. Strange.
My understanding is that the AZ vaccine uses a simian adenovirus as the carrier of the spike protein which could result in a future wave of monkey flu. Planet of the Apes, here we come!
Or throw you into a canceltration camp.
My first thought was: why would a health agency involved with saving lives be named for a well-known advocate for population control? That doesn’t seem quite right. It turns out that it’s named for a different Paul Ehrlich.
Good name for that, canceltration
The AstraZeneca vax is not one of the 3 CDC approved vaccines for use here in the US.
However; the 3 vaccines that are OK?
“Experimental”.
Not at all! Asking honest questions and expressing honest concern are completely valid.
Where it becomes anti-science conspiracy theory nonsense and fearmongering is when claims are made that the vaccines have Bill Gates mind control microchips in them, or that the vaccines are the mark of the beast from Revelations, or that they somehow re-write your DNA, or that they're made from alien DNA (yes, I've seriously heard all of these), or that people are dying from them or that they WILL be dying from them.... any day now... any day now... (hint: it's been a year since the first doses were given, and these ridiculous theories about Antibody-dependent Enhancement causing mass death are absolute garbage based on half-understanding decade-old papers).
So by all means: ask honest questions and express honest concerns. Just don't make wild and crazy claims that have no merit. Because that's just fearmongering.
As for the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine, we've known since October/November that the clinical trials they conducted had significant shortcomings. It's the reason why the FDA isn't even close to authorizing this vaccine and why I strongly suspect they never will. The problems that appear to be related to the AZ/Oxford vaccine started showing up very shortly after it was administered. The problems are still fairly rare, but significant and frequent enough to warrant a lot of additional scrutiny. And considering we have at least 3 good vaccines right now and Novavax on the way, I don't see a reason to risk the AZ/Oxford vaccine. Send our doses to the third world if they want them. We've already bought them. Somebody ought to make use of them.
British vaccine created by Oxford University.
(hint: it’s been a year since the first doses were given,
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Hint, sometimes clinical trial take years of testing on lab-animals before allowed in humans because it can take more than a year for adverse effects to show up.
mRNA has a half-life of 10 hours. If you got 100 million mRNA strands in a single dose, it’d be all gone in a week.
It’s more complicated than that.
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