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In discussions of Facebook medical accounts, no one writes that they want to get vaccinated, but not the AstraZeneca vaccine. He says it decided after learning about well-being after this vaccination. The media reports that hundreds of educators have abandoned the AstraZeneca vaccine for fear of so-called side effects.
“It is undesirable because a person does not want to experience them. But in many cases, many people (feel, aut. P.) Pain at the injection site, chills, headaches, broken bones, joints, muscles, high temperature are normal expressions of an intensively developing immune response ” Marius Strioga, an oncologist at the National Cancer Institute, told LNK.
The State Drug Control Agency reports that 802 reports of adverse reactions to vaccines have been received since the start of vaccination. The Office acknowledges that this is the total number of complaints registered, without evaluating their merits.
“There is no such criterion that this is a normal reaction, so we will not accept, record or treat it as an adverse reaction. We just record everything that people report, ”said Rugilė Pilvinienė, advisor to the State Voice Control Service.
The Ministry of Health also has only some drugs from the State Drug Control Service. Lithuania does not count medically confirmed adverse reactions.
“Not all reactions in Lithuania are collected, they are not counted,” said SAM Chancellor Jurgita Grebenkovienė.
According to the immunologist, the real side effect would be a life-threatening allergic reaction. However, Mr. Strioga emphasizes that this reaction can rarely be caused by both the vaccine and any medication.
According to M. Strioga, the AstraZeneca vaccine has become unpopular not only because of its lower efficacy of around 70 percent compared to Pfizer-BioNtech’s 90 percent. People don’t remember that flu vaccines, for example, are 30 to 40 percent effective.
The AstraZeneca vaccine is also hampered by negative information, both during the vaccine research phase and at the time of registration and when different countries decide the age at which it can be vaccinated.
“It’s all this background noise, different people are reacting to it and there is something wrong with this vaccine,” said M. Strioga, an oncologist at the National Cancer Institute.
The director of the Vilnius Antakalnis Polyclinic says that around a fifth of the teachers refused to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
“Since we still vaccinated teachers under 55 with the AstraZeneca vaccine, there were about 20 percent of those who refused. And we vaccinated people over 55 with the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine, the rejection rate was exactly the same, ”said the director of the Vilnius Antakalnis Polyclinic.
SAM is not aware to teachers when they can be vaccinated with another vaccine.
“20 percent is actually quite a significant number and it is unfortunate that teachers have refused to be vaccinated and have questioned the safety of this vaccine. I don’t know when vaccination institutions will be able to offer vaccines to rejected teachers, I can’t say when, ”said J. Grebenkovienė, SAM Chancellor.
The number of teachers who refused to be vaccinated in Kaunas is almost 30 percent. Instead, the mayor of Kaunas calls for vaccinations for soldiers, border guards and police officers who are still in the priority line.
Questions about the vaccine from the British and Swedish company AstraZeneca arose after the European Medicines Agency approved the vaccine in late January, noting that there were not yet enough studies on whether the vaccine provides effective protection to people over the age of 55. years.
Subsequently, discussions about the side effects of the vaccine were shared on the social networks of some vaccinated people.
“One important thing is that the number of reports is not equal to the frequency of adverse reactions. We are just talking about people being as active as they are. The exact frequency of cases is determined in clinical trials. (…) In in this case, we are talking about the frequency of complaints, not the frequency of cases. We cannot compare the safety of vaccines from these data, “said R. Pilvinienė.
No vaccine provides absolute protection
According to the Medicines Control Agency, 760 notifications are classified as mild to moderate and 42 as serious.
The most serious reactions so far have been reported with the BioNTech and Pfizer vaccines.
“But it is this vaccine that has given the most injections, so it is natural that the more vaccines, the more reactions and the greater the variety of them,” said R. Pilvinienė.
Following the outbreak of a coronavirus outbreak at the Addere nursing home in Trakai this week, three of the infected population were diagnosed with COVID-19 after two doses of the vaccine.
A spokeswoman for the Medicines Control Agency said such cases were not impossible because no vaccine provided absolute protection.
“Nowhere is it stated that the protection with any vaccine is 100%. (…) A person can get sick despite having been vaccinated, but they can get sick in a milder way. That is what is sought and is wait, ”he said.
According to data from the Department of Statistics, in Lithuania, the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine was administered to 125 thousand people. 518 people, in both doses: 68 thousand. 651 people.
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