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The Norwegian Medicines Agency has determined that the risk from coronary vaccines is minimal. Supervision in several other European countries now comes to the same conclusion.
The vast majority of those who died after receiving the coronary vaccine were elderly and frail.
Last week, an international alarm was sounded after reports that 23 people had died after receiving the first dose of the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine in Norway.
Later, the number of deaths among vaccinated people has increased, but the Norwegian Medicines Agency has concluded that it is not the vaccine itself that kills life.
– Reports may indicate that common side effects of mRNA vaccines, such as fever and nausea, may have led to the death of some frail patients, said chief physician Sigurd Hortemo of the Norwegian Medicines Agency last week.
– If you are very fragile, you probably should not be vaccinated, added subject director Steinar Madsen.
Created fear
However, the messages from Norway created fear and gave the vaccine opponents water at the factory. The health authorities of several countries spoke out and assured that a clear causal link between the covid-19 vaccine and the deaths has not been established.
Of the more than 800,000 who have been vaccinated in France, before the weekend there were nine deaths among patients with chronic diseases in nursing homes and nursing homes.
– Nothing makes us conclude that the reported deaths are related to vaccination, says the French Agency for Medicines ANSM.
In Sweden, 13 deaths have been reported among vaccinated people, while Iceland has reported seven. Nor has a direct causal link been established there.
In Portugal, a health worker died two days after receiving the vaccine, but the autopsy showed, according to the country’s Justice Ministry, that it was not the vaccine that caused the death.
No specific concern
France is closely following developments in other countries, and a week ago the country’s Interior Ministry had recorded 71 deaths among those vaccinated.
At the same time, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) concluded that there was no “specific concern” about the side effects associated with the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine.
So far, the number of deaths among those who have received the vaccine is not considered abnormally high, nor has any direct connection between the vaccine and deaths been shown, it reads in its conclusion.
The deaths are largely explained by the fact that most European countries, such as Norway, have placed residents of frail and elderly nursing homes first in line for vaccinations.
– It is not unexpected that some of these people become ill as a result of old age or underlying diseases shortly after receiving the vaccine, with the vaccine itself playing no role, concludes the British Medicines Agency MHRA.
Sensitive question
The deaths of vaccinated people are a sensitive subject and are treated very differently from one country to another.
Norway and the other Nordic countries, such as France, have played with open cards, indicating how many deaths have been recorded and what possible side effects the vaccine may have.
The MHRA has withheld such information, presumably so as not to spread fear and cause increased resistance to vaccines, but now promises to provide such information.
“We will periodically publish all reported suspicious reactions related to covid-19 vaccines, along with our assessment of this data,” it was stated in an MHRA announcement this weekend.
You must assess the state of health
So far, neither the British health authorities nor other European countries have modified their vaccination programs or raised questions about whether the coronary vaccine is safe.
In Norway, there has been a widespread call for doctors to carefully assess the health status of very frail patients before they are possibly vaccinated.
Several other countries follow the same practice, including Ireland, where the health service (HSE) on Sunday referred to Norway and encouraged Irish doctors to do the same.
– People should not be vaccinated if their life expectancy is less than the time needed for the vaccine to take effect, indicated in a letter from the HSA to doctors.
More than 60 million doses of coronary vaccine were administered in 64 countries over the weekend, according to an AFP summary this weekend. In Norway, almost 72,000 had received the first dose of the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine, while just under 2,000 had received the second dose.
