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The case of the cessation of the AstraZeneca vaccine in some European countries, which was followed by the green light of the EMA that restarted the vaccination campaign, shows how what is linked to vaccines is not only a social and health dynamic, but also and above all economic me geopolitics. In fact, there are those who have wondered if behind the evidence that has ended up undermining confidence in the Anglo-Swedish vaccine there is hidden some political maneuver, highlighting how adverse reactions of a similar type and with comparable percentages also occur for others vaccines. .available.
Correlation or not
“The AstraZeneca vaccine is safe, effective, the benefits outweigh the risks, and we exclude relationships between cases of thrombosis” and the administration of the sera. This was stated by the director of Ema Emer Cooke arguing the green light for the vaccine. But the question should not be asked in terms of pure correlation, but in terms statistically. The fight against Covid is a race against time, you do not have the possibility to carry out a real screening of the intolerances that a vaccine can induce. Therefore, AstraZeneca is defined as “safe and effective” like all other vaccines on the market for a statistical count, which you see for example Britain vaccinated half its population with the AstraZeneca vaccine without critical problems arising.
In this sense, the statement of dr. Burioni: “Cerebral thrombosis could be related to the vaccine, but it was 18 (eighteen) of the 20 million (twenty million) vaccines. Personally, if they didn’t vaccinate me, they would vaccinate me instantly ”.
Pfizer editions published in England
For the purposes of Great Britain and England, the British Government has made these figures public. These are reactions to the Pfizer vaccine
Execution date: March 4, 2021
- Blood disorders: 2,033
- Cardiac disorders: 1,032
- Congenital disorders: 3
- Hearing disabilities: 713
- Endocrine disorders: 10
- Eye disorders: 1242 (12 blindness)
- Gastrointestinal disorders: 9,360
- General disorders: 26,391
- Liver disorders: 17
- Immune system disorders: 466
- Infections: 1,863
- Injuries: 393
- Investigations continued: 965
- Metabolic disorders: 525
- Muscle tissue disorders: 11,565
- Neoplasms: 20
- Nervous system disorders: 16,107
- Associated with pregnancy: 29
- Psychiatric disorders: 1,235
- Renal / urinary disorders: 187
- Reproductive System: 338
- Respiratory disorders: 3575
- Skin disorders: 6,042
- Vascular disorders: 992
- Dead: 212
- Medical and Surgical Procedures: 45
Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions
the zero risk, in a vaccination campaign that affects millions of people, it just doesn’t exist. It is necessary to enter into the order of ideas that medicine is not perfect, it never has been. And that the correct question is not so much whether or not there is a correlation between inoculation and adverse reactions, but rather to statistically measure the number. To date, getting into a car represents an extremely higher risk of death than from inoculating an anti-Covid vaccine.
Teacher Massimo galli, an infectious disease specialist and head of the department of infectious diseases at Sacco hospital, commented: “In the UK there were 227 reports of suspected adverse reactions to the Pfizer vaccine in which the patient died shortly thereafter and 275 of Astrazeneca, but in more than 11 million people who were injected with the dose. This is 0.025 percent of the cases, “he calculates.
“If we consider how many people Covid kills in a month, it is clear that stopping the administration of Astrazeneca was a mistake. Which will have serious consequences. “
Prof. Fabrizio Pregliasco, The current Director of Health of the IRCCS Galeazzi Orthopedic Institute in Milan, recalled how the risk of thrombi after the administration of the vaccine is infinitely lower than the risk of thrombi that any person, young or old, healthy or compromised, contracts Covid.
The risk of losing confidence
In addition to the slowdown in the vaccination campaign, which has been blocked for some 96 hours, the problem is the consequences on confidence in vaccination in general and in the AstraZeneca vaccine in particular. “The autopsy confirmed that Biella’s teacher died of a heart attack – Galli continues -, unfortunately it also happens to people in their fifties. Every day in Italy we have 166 thromboembolism phenomena, regardless of the vaccine. I think that in an event like this, due to the type of pathologies found, it would have been more prudent to continue administering the Astrazeneca vaccine and in the meantime carry out the investigations. I think it was a political choiceI can hardly believe that with this rate of adverse reactions it is a technical decision. We will suffer the consequences of this whole story for some time, also because the official denial about the risks of the Astrazeneca vaccine will have much less echo than the fears that triggered the announcement of its withdrawal. And all this, I say with regret, could have been avoided because the numbers do not show a real danger ”.
A political choice?
That is why someone behind the AstraZeneca case is making decisions of an economic and political nature rather than healthcare. The Covid-19 pandemic is the biggest problem in the pharmaceutical industry. In 2021 alone, at least 10 billion doses of vaccines will be sold worldwide, bringing Big Pharma between $ 120-150 billion in additional revenue.
the vaccine of AstraZeneca, developed at the University of Oxford and the Irbm of Pomezia, is a traditional product for sale in 2.80 euros per dose; the american Pfizer, developed with the German BioNTech, is an advanced technology and has an average price of approx. 16 euros ($ 19.5). And this is already an important element in trying to explain this week’s shutdown and the political implications that may lie upstream. To which must be added the difficult relations between the EU and the United Kingdom after Brexit and the rapprochement with Europe by the US by Biden after the Trump era.
A global clash?
As explained by a The impression Paolo Magri, Vice President of ISPI and Professor of International Relations at Bocconi, The Global Clash on Vaccines “is a great game where every hit seems legitimate. Without a doubt there is a heated confrontation where everything is legitimate: from mutual accusations, to propaganda, to export blocs. Sad as it may sound, we should be surprised otherwise: the health, economy, and electoral results of most countries in the world depend on vaccines. And again on vaccines, the game is also played between Russia, the United States, China and Europe. A game that started a long time ago but that can be redesigned with the great game of vaccines ”.
Patents
For the future, the issue of patents also gains importance, which in turn has entered the political agenda. Magri says in this regard: “Who else could develop vaccines and produce them in full emergency but pharmaceutical companies? Another question is whether it is correct to leave the management of pandemics that reappear after Covid entirely in private hands. This evaluation also includes a review of the patent legislation or at least the identification of derogation mechanisms that are faster and more practicable than those already envisaged. “
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