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The German government’s decision is based on a recommendation from the Paul-Ehrlich Institute, the country’s institute for vaccines and biomedicine. The Netherlands, Italy, Spain and France have also suspended the vaccine.
In Norway, a 50-year-old woman who received the vaccine died. The woman is said to have no underlying diseases and that she died after having a blood clot. A teacher who was vaccinated in Italy also died on Sunday. It is currently unclear if it has anything to do with vaccination.
Total have around 17 million people in Europe have received the Astra Zeneca vaccine. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is conducting a review of the side effects associated with covid vaccination. The EMA’s conclusion thus far has been that there is no basis for vaccination with the Astra Zeneca vaccine to cause blood clots.
The WHO also recommends continued use of the Astra Zeneca vaccine, but is investigating side effects.
“This does not necessarily mean that the incidents are related to covid-19 vaccination, but it is a routine procedure to investigate them, and it shows that the monitoring system is working and that there are effective control functions,” said the WHO Secretary-General. . Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus according to Reuters.
The International Association of Blood Clot Physicians and Specialists wrote Saturday that there is no evidence of a link between Astra Zeneca’s covid-19 vaccine and blood clots.
Sunday night Astra Zeneca commented on reports of blood clots as a possible effect of vaccination.
“Approximately 17 million people in the EU and UK have received our vaccine and the number of people affected by blood clots in that group is less than the hundreds of cases that can be expected in the population as a whole,” he said the company. chief physician Ann Taylor in a statement.
However, Sweden has not introduced a stop.
DN has requested comment from the Swedish Medical Products Agency, but the authority refers to a new message on the website, where they write that the investigation by the EMA and the Medical Products Agency has been intensively ongoing since the end of the week. pass.
“The investigation examines all available information, including that which has been received in recent days, to determine if there is a causal link to the vaccine.”
Suspicious side effects include blood clots (thrombosis), “which in some cases had an unusual clinical picture, such as concomitantly low platelet levels (thrombocytopenia),” the authority writes.
On Tuesday, the EMA PRAC safety committee will have a meeting to discuss the available data and on Thursday, the PRAC will have an additional meeting to decide if any action is necessary.
Ali Mirazimi, Adjunct Professor in clinical virology at the Karolinska Institutet, has recently examined all the suspected side effects of the Astra Zeneca vaccine that have been reported to the European Medicines Agency EMA’s Eudravigilance adverse reaction database. Based on that information, you can’t see anything that indicates an increased risk of blood clots.
– Then there can always be things related to a batch, a batch of vaccines. Then you have to go in and see if one of the parts differs from the others in any way. I think many countries have stopped to do just that.
He believes that regulatory authorities in different countries have their own principles for making decisions.
– Some take precautionary measures, others do not believe there are reasons for it.
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