Posted on 03/15/2021 8:34:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
LONDON — Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands have joined the growing list of countries that have suspended the use of the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford over blood clot concerns.
The Dutch government said Sunday that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine would not be used until at least March 29, while Ireland said earlier in the day that it had temporarily suspended the shot as a precautionary step. On Monday, the German government also said it was suspending its use with the vaccine regulator, the Paul Ehrlich Institute, calling for further investigations.
The World Health Organization has sought to downplay ongoing safety concerns, saying last week that there is no link between the shot and an increased risk of developing blood clots. The United Nations health agency has urged countries to continue using the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
Despite this, a number of European countries have already paused the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. It has added to the woes of the region’s ailing vaccination campaign at a time when Germany’s public health agency has warned that a third wave of coronavirus infections has already begun.
Thailand has also halted its planned deployment of the vaccine.
The move to pause its use by Dutch and Irish officials came shortly after Norway’s medicines agency said it had been notified of three health workers being treated in hospital for bleeding, blood clots and a low count of blood platelets after receiving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. Norway has put its Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine program on hold.
Geir Bukholm, director of the division of infection control and environmental health at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, said Norway’s medicines agency would “follow up on these suspected side effects and take the necessary measures in this serious situation.”
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Three people? Horrors.
How do you get a putative problem with clotting when they also experienced bleeding and low platelet count?
How stupid can we be!?
That's what the panicdemic is trying to determine.
Not a surprise.
That is exactly what the covid virus does.
It causes platelets to aggregate so that they can no longer be used to stop bleeding and the aggregated platelets block vessels.
Go to your local wal mart as I do and watch women waddling around at five hundred pounds or at 35 on a scooter too lazy to huff and puff
Some men too
I want to ask them why are you on a scooter ...I saw you walk from your car to the scooter
This is America today and it happened pretty fast....25 years ...30 tops
The common side-effects of COVID vaccines to date, mirror for the large part the common side-effects of the “morning after” drug.
There’s no concern about the “pill” in the press.
The UK government has gone out of its way to report on side-effects (Yellow Card data) and it’s all here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions
Assuming you believe the data, the results are exceptionally good - when you consider who the people being vaccinated are.
It looks like the Event 201 / The Great Reset plan is to collapse the food supply chain and get us all eating plant based or lab grown meat. Gates has made this edict
What is the death threshold in your mind to postpone an experimental vaccine?
There’s a reason the FDA isn’t even close to granting authorization at this point for the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine. We knew several months ago that there were problems in their clinical trial protocols.
This is exactly why President Trump selected the top 5 candidates for Operation Warp Speed funding and didn’t put all our eggs in one basket.
THANK YOU AGAIN President Trump!
Eh might have a stroke or MS or a host of other maladies; it’s not strictly obesity and laziness.
This vaccine is not available in the US.
Any adverse reactions (including deaths) during clinical trials halt the clinical trial until a full investigation is completed and a determination can be made about the risk to others and the overall likelihood of success for the medicine in the trial. The AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine clinical trials were halted twice for adverse reactions. Later it became known that there were problems in the clinical trial protocols used by AstraZeneca and Oxford University. Because of all this, they haven’t even asked the FDA for authorization and it’s unlikely they’ll get it since we have more proven, safer, more effective vaccines already available.
To answer your question as-stated: one death is enough to postpone clinical trials. And that’s exactly what happens today. To answer the question you wanted to ask - but chose leading wording to ask - about what threshold should postpone a medicine authorized for use by the FDA under an EUA? Again, one. If a single death is causally linked to a vaccine, it should be fully investigated to determine why that individual had such a severe reaction. If the factor linking the two can be determined, a black box label should be attached so no one else with the same set of deadly medical circumstances takes that medicine.
And that’s exactly how it works today. That’s the whole purpose of black box labels. Several kinds of combination birth control pills carry a black box label due to cardiovascular risks associated with them. Because nobody (not the doctor, not the pharmacist, not the medicine producer, not the FDA regulators, and certainly not the patient) want to expose a patient to a medicine that could seriously injure or kill them.
Jan_Sobieski wrote: “What is the death threshold in your mind to postpone an experimental vaccine?”
How many deaths would it take to convince you to take the vaccine?
No confirmed deaths from the vaccine.
The virus has killed over 500,000.
RE:This is exactly why President Trump selected the top 5 candidates for Operation Warp Speed funding and didn’t put all our eggs in one basket.
Let’s see... Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson and Johnson’s ( all approved for Emergency Authorization Used )
Novavax’s, which should come next....
So what’s the fifth?
So say the RATs.
The whole Dempanic is debatable.
Pfizer wasn’t on that list, AstraZeneca/Oxford was. I don’t recall who the fifth was.
They were the top 5 most promising vaccine candidates back in May/June 2020.
About 90% of all medicines fail Phase 3 clinical trials either for safety issues or efficacy issues. So out of those 5 original candidates, we were lucky to even get 1 that works. That we have 3 safe and effective vaccines today with a fourth (Novavax) on the way is a miracle. With random odds saying you’d get 0-1 out of the 5 through trials, President Trump got 3/5. That’s some incredible foresight.
We don’t need the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine at this point. And based on the problems in the clinical trials and the apparently related problems with reactions in the wild, we shouldn’t authorize it.
ROCKLOBSTER wrote: “So say the RATs. The whole Dempanic is debatable.”
That’s the point. One has to believe the virus is a host to deny the need for the vaccine.
Shouldn’t it be greater than the number of such events that would have happened in a population without the vaccine?
If the you expected, say, ten deaths of bleeds, low platelet counts, and clots in the population in that time period, then three is a great number.
If you expected ten such deaths in such a unvaccinated population and 100 occurred in the same size vaccinated population, the you have a problem.
If you expected ten and got ten, do you have a problem?
Any study or analysis by the An Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge (IPAK) is suspect since IPAK is a well known source of anti-vaxxer propaganda.
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