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Most Of the AstraZeneca Vaccines Ordered By the Netherlands Will Go Unused

by Michael Curzon
26 April 2021 10:52 AM

Most of the 11 million doses of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine ordered by the Dutch Government will go unused because so many other vaccines will soon be available in the country, according to the director of its vaccination programme. The Netherlands recently limited the use of the AZ vaccine to people aged over 60 following cases of blood clots which are also believed to have damaged public confidence in the vaccine. Dutch News has the story.

The head of the vaccination department at [the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment has told] the AD [newspaper] in an interview that the millions of doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine due to reach the Netherlands in the coming weeks will largely remain unused.

So many vaccines will be delivered that the AstraZeneca vaccine, currently only given to people aged 60 to 64, will not be needed, Jaap van Delden told the paper.

The Netherlands has ordered 11 million doses of the vaccine and some 1.5 million doses have been given to date. Most of the order is due to be delivered in mid-May.

The chaotic introduction of the AstraZeneca vaccine – first halted, then allowed, then halted for the under-60s – because of concerns about very rare blood clots, has led to a low take-up rate in some doctors’ practices.

But the national family doctors association [the National General Practitioners Association] LHV has reacted to the comments, saying that the AstraZeneca vaccine is extremely important and that the interview with Van Delden has only confused the issue more.

“The policy changes surrounding this vaccine are making it more difficult for doctors to ensure high turnout [for the vaccination]”, the organisation said.

“This is absolutely not helping… As far as we are concerned it is clear: if the choice is AstraZeneca now or possibly another vaccine later, then the choice should absolutely be for AstraZeneca now.”

In the interview with AD, Jaap van Delden said the leftover vaccines are likely to be distributed among poorer countries.

The Dutch News report is worth reading in full.

Tags: AstraZenecaEuropeNetherlandsVaccine

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steve_w
steve_w
4 years ago

still can’t see europe’s third wave

https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/

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MikeAustin
MikeAustin
4 years ago
Reply to  steve_w

It’s the wave saying goodbye to freedom

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  steve_w

Yes – and it has to be borne in mind that the Euromomo graphing dies tend to exaggerate in certain cases.

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Norman
Norman
4 years ago
Reply to  steve_w

It would help if all the graphs used the same vertical scaling

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steve_w
steve_w
4 years ago
Reply to  Norman

it would also be better if the countries used total deaths rather than their ludicrous Z-score

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago

As an ungrateful child in late 60’s refusing to eat all of my dinner mum would say

‘There are plenty of starving children in Pakistan who would be thankful to have that to eat’*

“So fine put it in a bag and send it to them !”

‘You wait till your father gets home’.

(* Film of famine and starvation from the Sub Continent was a staple of TV news in the 60’s.)

If the Dutch authorities are so certain that the AstraZeneca vaccine is safe they could, with a clear concience, donate those 11 million doses to India in her hour of need.

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GCarty80
GCarty80
4 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

If it was the late 60s wouldn’t the rhetorical starving children more likely have been Biafran?

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WorriedCitizen
WorriedCitizen
4 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

‘There are plenty of starving children in Pakistan who would be thankful to have that to eat’*

Same for me and my brother, though Biafran He used to say, “name one”. ;-))

Last edited 4 years ago by WorriedCitizen
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Norman
Norman
4 years ago

Puts all the fuss the EU made about getting supplies of AZ instead of UK rather into perspective.

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B.F.Finlayson
B.F.Finlayson
4 years ago
Reply to  Norman

The EU is STILL making a fuss, and has today formally taken legal steps to sue AZ.
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/european-commission-sues-astrazeneca-over-vaccine-supplies-shortfall-973007?ITO=newsnow

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Susan
Susan
4 years ago

The author: …. incidents of clotting “believed to have stunted the confidence” in vaccines. Stunt… as if confidence growing after such incidents would be a natural and good thing.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  Susan

“incidence of clotting believed to have stunted the confidence . . .”
Trans =
“ramped up the hostility toward vaccines”.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
4 years ago
Reply to  Susan

Interesting reports of tinnitus in a minority after jabs. Not clear if it goes away yet. Tinnitus is also reported in a minority with Covid, It seems as though those spike proteins are capable of creating damage all on their own – those with mild or intermittent tinnitus should probably add this to the list of risk as they weigh up the pros and cons.
The big question is, are the new experimental vaccine treatments causing life-altering effects in the young that Covid does not in that age group?
The only country I trust to look dispassionately and carefully at this is Norway.

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
4 years ago

Clownworld:

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J4mes
J4mes
4 years ago

The Dutch would be doing the world a favour if they dumped the poison in a hazardous waste pit.

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Martin Frost
Martin Frost
4 years ago

If the AstraZeneca vaccines are not going to be used, shouldn’t they be donated to the Covax programme?

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Graff Frankenheim
Graff Frankenheim
4 years ago

How utterly fraudulent and deceptive this official Dutch explanation. The reality is that the over-sixties declined the vaccine at an unimaginable rate (the Dutch press actually reported this lamely and the percentage of rejections is claimed to be 40% which means it probably was near 60-70%) and hence there is this surplus. It has nothing to do with other vaccines becoming available….these will be declined too. The over-sixties were the last generation in this country who were actually taught how to think for themselves and are hence highly skeptical about attempts at enforced mass inoculation with an experimental gene-therapy the long term effects of which are unknown. This skepticism is not confined to particular brands.

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