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Italy and France to “Quickly Resume” AstraZeneca Rollout When EU Medicines Agency Gives Green Light

by Michael Curzon
16 March 2021 10:50 PM

The leaders of Italy and France have made it clear that they will “quickly resume” their countries’ rollouts of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine when the European Medicines Agency gives the green light, as it’s expected to on Thursday. MailOnline has the story.

The leaders of Italy and France today committed to “quickly” resume inoculations of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine once the European regulator gives the all-clear. 

Italian PM Mario Draghi and French President Emmanuel Macron appeared to roll the pitch for an imminent climbdown.

On a call the two leaders agreed they were ready to resume using the jab “quickly” if the European Medicines Agency (EMA) gives the green light on Thursday.

Mario Draghi’s office said “the preliminary statement today from EMA was positive”. The EMA has found “no indication” that AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine is the cause of reported blood clots.

A top European Commission official today urged EU governments to stop sitting on their vaccine stockpiles.

Stella Kyriakides, the Health Commissioner, said the bloc was in a “race against time” to roll out the vaccine or face several more spikes in infections.

The EU has already seen a disastrous rollout of the vaccine across the continent, with just 8% of adults receiving a jab compared to a third in the UK.

There have been supply problems with both the AstraZeneca and Pfizer jabs, but it was revealed earlier that several countries including Germany are sitting on stockpiles.

“Even with the immense and regrettable challenges around production capacity and deliveries, there are reports of unused reservoirs of vaccines across the EU,” said Kyriakides following talks with European health ministers. …

While Italy has used all of its Pfizer jabs, the country still has 250,000 AstraZeneca vaccines that it banned from going to Australia in storage.

According to the Times, there are some 14.2 million jabs (60%) delivered to EU governments that are yet to be used. 

It seems as though this saga is coming to an end. But might another now commence over Pfizer’s Covid vaccine, which has been linked to more blood clots than AstraZeneca’s in reports from the UK? That’s unlikely given that the Chief of Italy’s medicines regulator has claimed that bans across Europe of the AstraZeneca vaccine were the results of “political” choices.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: AstraZenecaFranceItalyVaccine

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
4 years ago

“When EU Medicines Agency Gives Green Light”

So it’s already decided then?

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awildgoose
awildgoose
4 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

“In other news, the entire EMA have just purchased motor yachts and unanimously named them, ‘AstraZeneca’.”

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peyrole
peyrole
4 years ago

It seems this site has made its choice. It complains about lack of science and logic when talking about lockdowns, correctly; but does the complete opposite when talking about covid vaccines.
I am not anti-vax , my wife and I have those that make sense when travelling to exotic places with risk of life threatening diseases, our kids have had their injections with tried and tested vaccines.
But compulsary emergency use only injections with novel bioscience for a disease with 0.23% IFR? Our brains are still working, no thanks.
Bye bye LDS, you’ve sold your soul.

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TheBluePill
TheBluePill
4 years ago
Reply to  peyrole

Agreed. LDS, I understand that you don’t want to be tarred by the anti-vaxxer slur. However you really need to be clear that the risks posed by the virus are low, while the consequences of unknown vaccine side effects are potentially devastating. It makes zero sense for almost anyone. Pretending we need a vaccine is submitting to the lies and hysteria. We need to be stronger than that.

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TJN
TJN
4 years ago
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It pains me to read this, and to agree with it fully.

But we are where we are. 

I wish Toby would come clean on all this. 

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Matt Mounsey
Matt Mounsey
4 years ago

The EMA don’t even bother to require these companies to give you the same vaccine they’ve approved. Leaked emails have shown that they have been consistently concerned about major differences between the approved vaccines and those that go into production, but they’ve bowed to political pressure from Ursula von der Lyen and her cronies.

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