Eighteen countries have now suspended use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine pending a review by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) into concerns about it causing serious blood clots. They are: Sweden, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Iceland, Portugal, Ireland, Bulgaria, Denmark, Slovenia, Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Latvia, Indonesia and Venezuela.
Many scientists and commentators have criticised the regulators and governments taking these decisions as misapplying the precautionary principle – in a number of cases, as Toby notes, speaking without a hint of self-awareness as those same commentators have been cheerleaders of the lockdowns for the last 12 months, typically justified through an abuse of the precautionary principle on scant data.
The head of Italy’s medicines regulator, Nicola Magrini, today claimed the bans across Europe were part of a politically driven snowball effect with countries within the EU coming under pressure to follow suit. Given the hard time European countries have given the Oxford jab in recent weeks (definitely not because it’s British, of course) – swinging, as Ross Clark remarks, “from accusing the company – and Britain – of hoarding the vaccine and failing to supply it to EU countries, to claiming that it is ineffective, back to accusing us of hoarding it again” – it is easy to buy this argument and suspect the actions are not simply all about safety. If that is so, you have to wonder what these governments think they’re doing, playing politics with vaccines, and whether their electorates will thank them for depriving them of long-awaited inoculations for the sake of scoring a few points against renegade Blighty and awkward AstraZeneca.
Is there anything to the concerns? Commentators today have been quick to point out that COVID-19 is “100,000 times more dangerous, compared to the tiny possibility of an issue with clotting”. There is also the inconsistency (raising questions of politics again) of targeting the AstraZeneca vaccine when, according to data from the MHRA, more people have reported blood clots after having the Pfizer vaccine than the Oxford one – up to February 28th there were 38 reports from 11.5 million doses of Pfizer, compared to 30 from 9.7m of AstraZeneca.
On the other hand, blood disorders as a whole have been reported at more than twice the rate in relation to the AstraZeneca shot compared with Pfizer, while a letter in the BMJ yesterday argued that if you look at reports of deep vein thrombosis and vascular (blood vessel) disorders then the Oxford vaccine comes out much worse.
The latest ADR reports published by the MHRA state that 11.5m doses of the Pfizer vaccine and 9.7m doses of the Oxford Astra Zeneca vaccine have been given in the UK between December 9th 2020 and February 28th 2021.
Fourteen cases of deep vein thrombosis have been reported with the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine and only eight with the Pfizer brand.
Overall in the category of “vascular disorders” the Oxford vaccine has 1,635 reports and three fatalities with the Pfizer brand having only 1,119 reports and one fatality.
Evidently one is more likely to suffer a disorder of this kind with the Oxford vaccine than the Pfizer one.
A chorus of defence for the AstraZeneca jab rang out today, as the Mail reports.
European Medicines Agency (EMA) bosses said they were “firmly convinced” that injections with the AstraZeneca shot should continue. Safety experts said a “very small number of people” have come down with blood disorders but there is “no indication” the jab was to blame.
It joined the World Health Organization and the UK Government in offering a full-throated defence of the vaccine amid fury at European heavyweights for suspending the jabs.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson also waded into the row today, insisting the AstraZeneca vaccine is safe and saying he would be “very happy” if he is given it when he goes to his first Covid vaccination appointment this week. …
An Oxford University spokesperson echoed the balance of risk comment and said: “Both the MHRA and EMA have said that the vaccine’s benefits continue to outweigh any potential risks, and the vaccine can continue to be administered while investigation of cases of thromboembolic events is ongoing, a stance also supported by the WHO.”
Germany’s medicine regulator the Paul Ehrlich Institute published a detailed FAQ to explain its controversial actions and recommendations.
A specific form of severe cerebral venous thrombosis associated with platelet deficiency (thrombocytopenia) and bleeding has been identified in seven cases (as of March 15th 2021) in temporal association with vaccination with COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca.
(1) It is a very serious disease that is also difficult to treat. Of the seven affected individuals, three individuals had died.
(2) The affected individuals had ages ranging from about 20 to 50 years.
(3) Six of the affected persons had a particular form of cerebral venous thrombosis, called sinus vein thrombosis. All six individuals were younger to middle-aged women (see above). Another case with cerebral haemorrhage in platelet deficiency and thrombosis was medically very comparable. All cases occurred between four and 16 days after vaccination with COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca. This presented as a comparable pattern.
(4) The number of these cases after vaccination with COVID-19 AstraZeneca is statistically significantly higher than the number of cerebral venous thromboses that normally occur in the unvaccinated population. For this purpose, an observed-versus-expected analysis was performed, comparing the number of cases expected without vaccination in a 14-day time window with the number of cases reported after approximately 1.6 million AstraZeneca vaccinations in Germany. About one case would have been expected, and seven cases had been reported.
(5) The younger to middle-aged population affected by the severe cerebral venous thrombosis with platelet deficiency is not the population at high risk for a severe or even fatal COVID-19 course.
(6) In addition to the experts from the Paul Ehrlich Institute, other experts in thrombosis, haematology, and an adenovirus specialist were consulted with the details of the reported cases. All experts agreed unanimously that a pattern could be discerned here and that a connection between the reported above-mentioned diseases and the vaccination with COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca was not implausible. After an overall review and consideration of the above facts, the Paul Ehrlich Institute recommended that vaccination with the COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca be suspended in Germany as a precautionary measure in order to further analyse the cases. The German Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) has followed this recommendation. The Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) will review during the week of March 15th 2021, whether and how the new findings affect the benefit-risk profile of COVID-19 AstraZeneca and the EU authorisation of the vaccine
Meanwhile Sweden’s Anders Tegnell has indicated his country has suspended the vaccine over concerns about a different, unspecified side effect.
However, the EMA is clear that it remains “firmly convinced” of the benefits of the vaccine. Its safety committee will meet and reach a conclusion on Thursday, reports France24.
“We are still firmly convinced that the benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccine in preventing COVID-19 with its associated risk of hospitalisation and death outweigh the risk of these side effects,” EMA chief Emer Cooke told an online press conference.
“At present there is no indication that vaccination has caused these conditions. They have not come up in the clinical trials and they are not listed as known or expected side effects,” Cooke added.
Clinical trials had shown “very small numbers of blood clot developments”, she added.
The Amsterdam-based EMA’s Safety Committee was meeting Tuesday to assess new information and would reach a conclusion at a special meeting on Thursday, Cooke said.
For such a rare side effect (if side effect it is) it seems unlikely, given the EMA’s preliminary reassurances, that there will be any change in the approval of the vaccine for those at high risk from COVID-19, such as the elderly, health care workers and those with underlying conditions. More likely is that any risk identified will be flagged, just as a similar rare blood-clotting risk is flagged for women who use the birth control pill. France and Italy have already indicated that they are ready to resume the rollout as soon as the EMA gives the green light.
But might there be a change in the advice for those at low risk – the healthy under-50s – if side effect it turns out to be? Younger women appear to be particularly affected, according to the German data, possibly for hormonal reasons (as with the pill, and with pregnancy).
With a vaccine as hurried out as this one (and all the Covid ones), it is almost inevitable that rare side effects are going to show up when we vaccinate millions that wouldn’t have shown up in the trials when we vaccinated thousands. This may well turn out to be a false alarm. But that doesn’t mean we should assume no rare side effects will emerge as the rollout continues. As Ross Clark writes:
This week’s war of words over AstraZeneca shows just how foolish it is to pretend there is a scientific consensus on the safety of vaccines, or indeed anything else. If we want people to have faith in vaccines – and Britons have shown great faith so far – it will be necessary to be open about any risks which emerge, however small those risks may be.
Let’s hope on Thursday, as widely expected, the EMA finds that it was just a statistical coincidence with no connection to the jab. That would clearly be the best outcome for everybody.
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Who the hell are the satisfied 29%??
People whose in-laws recently sadlydied in NHS care?
The SuddenlyDied™ and the SadlyDied™…
And the 100%SafeAndEffectives™ …
The lazy, overpaid gits who work in it.
The satisfied are the Doctors.
I work in the NHS and, for the few (mainly Doctors), it’s a licence to print money.
They’ll pay lip service to the state of the NHS but behind closed doors they’re rubbing their hands in glee.
There’s only one reason for the present crisis and that’s the GP’s are in a sulk because they’re now expected to see and treat patients after their extended paid leave during Covid and it’s not going down well. In retaliation for being expected to work they’ve taken to diverting the patients to A&E, preferably in an expensive Ambulance. No one questions them and so the A&E car park is rammed with Ambulances, filled with trivial ailments that the GP’s refuse to deal with.
Their Doctor colleagues in A&E gladly accept them and keep their mouths shut so that they can all keep their snouts in the trough.
You’d think they’d have some shame after slaughtering tens of thousands during Covid but they know they’re teflon with the general public so can basically do whatever they please.
Whilst I was abroad a little while back, my wife had an accident. She snapped the ball off one her femurs bones. My neighbour Whatapped me to tell me my wife had had an accident, I could hear her whining like a beaten dog in the background.
Luckily I have for some great neighbours who stayed all of the 12 hours it took for the ambulance to arrive. The hospital was only 4 miles away from my house.
Although it was unsettling to hear my wife crying like that the thing that really scared me was if she moved and dislodged a bone fragment which could possible pierce her femoral artery and she would bleed in.
Speaking of unhappiness, here is an issue the NHS have been rubbish at tackling these last couple of years; loneliness.
Useless NHS!
https://rumble.com/vsgwlc-unvaccinated-man-feeling-left-out-as-all-his-vaccinated-friends-have-covid.html
And the solution is: Coronascrabble! Everytime you get a boring old cold, keeping testing until you finally hit the jackpot. Once you’ve managed to get a positive test, you may swap the old and boring L in C-O-L-D for a fresh and exciting V-I to make C-O-V-I-D and then, you belong again!
Masks not included.
You may have hit on something! “L” in Roman numerals is 50. “VI” is 6. The ratio is roughly 8.3. As a bit of a mystic meg, I wonder if between 8 and 9 “cases” of covid are actually colds?
Not quite. Roman numbers always proceed from large to small. If a small number is placed in front of a larger one, it’s meant to be subtracted from it. Hence LD = 500 – 50 = 450 and VID is probably a swapped DIV which is 504.
Assuming the 450 was placed in a cyclic, decimal shift register and rotated one place to the left, the outcome would be 504. Which gets me back to my original point: COVID is that The Science[tm] makes out of COLD with Fancy Computer Tech[tm]. Among afficionados, COVID is thus also informally known as Smart Cold, a disease globally deployed in numerous variants since 2020 and originally supposed to enable ModeRNA to finally come to market with some product based on their innovative As Dangerous As Useless[tm] (patent pending) mRNA technology. The codename for this was Operation Daft Sweep.
Conspiracy Theory Thursday: Why the mad drive to inject more and more people with covaxxes despite they’re not the least bit at a risk from COVID?
Answer: If everybody – or almost everybody – is vaccinated, especially a lot of younger people who are generally more robust wrt infections than members of the so-called vulnerable groups, then, nobody will notice that we have a real killer product here, at least for some time.
How many of the people who got the first round injections in Dec 2020/ Jan 2021 because they were deemed especially vulnerable are still alive?
Interestingly in the early 2000s research into coronaviruses used a PCR test to identify ~396 base pairs. The same tests are being used to identify ‘covid’…. How many of of those positive tests have found something which is similar?
A basic this is the science behind the process, so how the hell can what is claimed to be found be true?
Well, this is a real ‘No Shit Sherlock’ story isn’t it?
One assumes it’s quite challenging for most of the staff to remain motivated and cheerful as they come to terms with their blind cooperation in this grotesquely horrific medical holo-caust.
Does anybody know if there’s an increase in ambulance call outs in the UK ( or wherever you are ) still? Here’s Dr Bridle observing the significant increase in such calls in a part of Canada, way higher than when there was a deadly virus on the loose and no ”highly effective” pseudo-vaccines to protect folk;
”Notably, this increase correlates with increases in all-cause mortality around the world. Would it be worth considering the ‘elephant in the room’; i.e., the possibility that the COVID-19 shots might have a role to play here? Any experts who definitively say ‘“no” better have some solid data to prove it.
It would be great if we could get paramedic service data from all across Canada and other countries. Specifically, it would be helpful to know what call volumes looked like in 2020 (no shots but a ‘deadly virus that overwhelmed the medical system’), 2021 and 2022 (‘COVID-19 ‘vaccine’ rollout), and pre-pandemic (baseline).”
https://viralimmunologist.substack.com/p/call-volume-for-paramedics-went-down
I popped into my local hospital to find that you must wear a mask again. It’s mandatory! This is insane as not only do they do nothing in relation to any airborne virus but they are single use plastic. How much money has been spent on masks and who has the contract to supply them? In addition there was a poster saying something about ZeroCovid!!!! For **** sake, has nothing been learned in 3 years? Why is anyone pushing the insane idea that you can completely eliminate Covid and now? I now have a visceral dislike of any intent that involves the word ‘zero’. There is nothing good in it.
Mandatory only in some administrator’s warped view of the world with no knowledge of the lawful position on consent to a medical intervention – masking is a medical intervention – the simplest thing to do is to say that you’re exempt.
Also, the taxpayer will pay for these and probably for the management of procuring them as well as disposal. we paid for the ‘vaccines’ and we will pay for damages caused by the ‘vaccines’.
Well if doctors and nurses are still seeing fit to bump off old folk with their midazolam/morphine death cocktail then they won’t think anything of continuing to fly in the face of an Everest-sized mountain of contradictory evidence and keep dehumanizing patients in the face-nappy dept too. Because that’s basically how they see most patients, as subhuman, or so it would seem anyway. Here’s a documentary, for anyone who hasn’t yet seen it, on the whole morphine/midazolam thing. As much as I despise Handcockup, the buck stops with the doctors who prescribe this death sentence and the nurses who administer it.
https://odysee.com/@Belfasteye.com:9/aGoodDeath:1
Agreed, Net Zero the same. Did this start with Pol Pot and his Year Zero, which also sounds similar to a ‘Great Reset’?
Just refuse. Firstly as BB says these are a medical intervention and secondly ask to see written confirmation that they are mandatory and under whose authority because it is not government.
Of course the structural issues within the NHS were already there but the following piece of excellent journalism shows who was responsible for driving all the terrible decisions that have pushed many of our institutions into untenable positions. Perhaps there was intent in all this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FPQJD-fQQI&t=0s
Amazing True Story: The Actual Origins of Lockdown ‘Science’ !
Here is a Short from this video showing a very key person – Bruce Aylward.
https://youtu.be/lbe1ISGHS4k
Here is Bruce Aylward being asked why Taiwan is not recognized by the WHO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlCYFh8U2xM
I hope the connection is clear?
let’s hope the public soon wake up to the real reason for the inadequacy of the NHS like all the public sector, is nothing to do with a lack of money.
More people, more money is the cry of those unable to think critically. The NHS already consumes 1 in every £10 of the tax take and employs 1 in 25 working age adults. How much more can we give it..?
“You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.” – Thomas Sowell
The NHS will never get fixed. Politically, Labour make out that it is a national treasure and the envy of the world and that “The Evil Tories” want to destroy; however, when they get in power they are clueless and fearful of reform (and upsetting the Public Sector unions). The Conservatives are so frightened of the media outcry if they even attempt reform that they just pump more money into it and continue the status quo.
It’ll take war or the government facing bankrupcy before real reform takes place.
What a wonderful job lockdown did protecting the NHS.
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Wonder how many would be outside every week banging their pots and pans nowadays…
Doesn’t pot-banging bring on ‘Sudden Death Syndrome’ or Sadly Died Syndrome first identified by The Science ™ in 1977 as a silent killer? (along with happiness)
Senator Babet is one to watch down under. He’s the same on other issues such as trans ideology and climate twaddle. Good man! But 97.5% Aussies over 16yrs have been jabbed though??
https://twitter.com/goddeketal/status/1638885872769679360?cxt=HHwWgIC-nZSBv74tAAAA
You have to wonder how much money would be enough for the 50% who think it doesn’t get enough.
The administrative bureaucracy of the management layer is now so dense no increase in funding money could ever reach the front line
Let’s hope people don’t think the problem is under funding.
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They do! There seem to be an awful lot of people who won’t be happy until 100% of our tax take is funding ‘our’ NHS.
Remember the psyop. Clap for the NHS. I thought it was daft then. It looks insane now! I honestly believe (and hope) that the NHS is finished. We need a new system that promotes healthy living and that is not beholden to big pharma.
I thought we were clapping the TikTok videos
Echoing Miss Dolly’s comment, whenever I mention the NHS and how difficult it is to see a GP (I havent seen one face to face for 4 years!!!!), my friends living in the countryside would say how wonderful their local NHS is! From GP appointments to hospitalisation, they are thrilled and satisfied. So, my question is, is it the London based NHS service that is failing us? But not the countryside? If so, why are the city hospitals and GP’s so incompetent?
“Majority of Public Unhappy with NHS for First Time…”
Just woke up have they?
Just shows what a nations of nitwits Britain is. They deserve all they get – or in the case of the NHS, don’t get.
Amazingly high level of support considering they have spent the last 2 years peddling a lethal injection for us. Wait till the majority understand the full implications of this crime….
Meanwhile staff TikTok routines are going from strength to strength
Very very depressing. Yesterday I “enjoyed” the company of friends from my old workplace . Without going into too much detail I had lunch with one lot and dinner with a different set. To a man and woman they were fully engaged with government policy over covid. All had been fully “vaccinated” and boosted and proud of it. The final coup de grace came when one proudly announced he has just bought an electric car!
Naturally, because of my views I was passed off as a conspiracy theorist and told I had “gone down too many ‘worm’ holes”!
Thank God for you lot!