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TOWhen asked if the movements in Europe regarding AstraZeneca were political, JCVI Professor Jeremy Brown said: “I cannot believe that individual agencies in those countries are making political decisions, it is not the way these agencies should. behave. It doesn’t make any logical sense. “
He told Good Morning Britain that the blood clots reported in Europe were “very, very rare events that may be occurring in three or four people for every million people vaccinated. And yet, on the other hand, that works against the fact that if you vaccinate one million people with the AstraZeneca vaccine, it will save 1,000 lives.
“They have taken the do-no-harm precautionary principle and misused it, by not using the vaccine when, in fact, the vaccine should continue to be used unless there are incredibly good reasons not to.”
Professor Brown said that he did not believe that the “specific unusual clot in the brain vein” that is at the root of the concerns in Germany “turns out to be related to the vaccine anyway, this is an incredibly rare event”.
He added: “We do not know how often it occurs, even if people have not been vaccinated. It is a complication of having an acute Covid infection and therefore very, very rare and unlikely to be related to the vaccine.
“It is not sensible to use that as a reason to stop using the vaccine when we know that the vaccine prevents 85-90% of hospital admissions.”
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