Clear link between AstraZeneca vaccine and rare blood clots in brain, European Medicines Agency (EMA) official tells paper

Reuters ^ | 04/06/2021 | Reuters Staff

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ROME (Reuters) - There is a link between AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine and very rare blood clots in the brain but the possible causes are still unknown, a senior official for the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said in an interview published on Tuesday.

However, the EMA later said in a statement that its review of the vaccine was ongoing and it expected to announce its findings on Wednesday or Thursday. An AstraZeneca spokesman declined to comment on the matter.

“In my opinion, we can now say it, it is clear that there is an association (of the brain blood clots) with the vaccine. However, we still do not know what causes this reaction,” Marco Cavaleri, chair of the vaccine evaulation team at the EMA, told Italian daily Il Messagero.

Cavaleri provided no evidence to support his comment.

The EMA has repeatedly said the benefits of the AstraZeneca shot outweigh the risks as it investigates 44 reports of an extremely rare brain clotting ailment known as cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) out of 9.2 million people in the European Economic Area who have received the vaccine.

The World Health Organization has also backed the vaccine.

AstraZeneca has said previously its studies have found no higher risk of clots because of its vaccine.

Cavaleri said the EMA would say in its review that there is a link but was not likely to give an indication this week regarding the age of individuals to whom the AstraZeneca shot should be given.

Some countries, including France, Germany and the Netherlands, have suspending the use of the vaccine in younger people while the investigations continue.

[Phillyred]

Seems worth it.

[Torquay]

“Seems worth it.”

Only if you want to be a guinea pig with an experimental injection! Have at it!

[P-Marlowe]

And you can’t sue.

[Svartalfiar]

And you can’t sue.

Can't you? Or have they also passed something recently that gives manufacturers a free pass to do whatever they want?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vaccines-idUSKBN25M0RQ

In these extraordinary circumstances, EU governments “are ready to financially cover certain of the companies’ risks”, an EU official told Reuters. The official added, however, that the EU’s strict rules on liability remain in place.

These rules consider vaccine makers and other manufacturers liable for their products on sale in the EU, apart from rare cases when, for instance, they did not put them into circulation.

The EU’s top court increased the burden on drugmakers in 2017 when it ruled vaccine users were entitled to compensation if they could prove a shot caused a negative side-effect, even when there was no scientific consensus on the matter.

[ronnie raygun]

Booster shots for all those who survived the first shots next year

[Phillyred]

I was being sarcastic. :)