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EU Medicines Agency Says AstraZeneca Vaccine is “Safe and Effective”

by Michael Curzon
18 March 2021 4:47 PM

The AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is “safe and effective” to use, according to the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Many European countries suspended use of the vaccine pending a review by the agency into concerns about it causing blood clots. Italy and France said on Tuesday that they would “quickly resume” their countries’ rollouts once the green light was given. Sky News has the story.

The European Union’s medicines agency has said the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine is “safe and effective” to use following an investigation into reports of blood clots in a small number of recipients.

The decision by the EMA comes after more than a dozen European countries – including Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, France and Sweden – halted the vaccine’s rollout over fears regarding the claims.

The EMA said the benefits outweigh the risks – and the vaccine is not linked to an overall risk of blood clots.

However, the agency’s safety committee has also said it can’t rule out a “small number of cases” of a rare clotting disorder that have occurred after vaccination. …

The WHO added its weight behind the debate ahead of the EMA’s announcement, urging countries to continue using the jab.

“As of now, we do not know whether some or all of the conditions have been caused by the vaccine or by other coincidental factors,” said Hans Kluge, the WHO’s European director.

“At this point in time, however, the benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccine far outweigh its risks – and its use should continue, to save lives.”

The agency has said that it cannot “rule out definitively” the vaccine’s link to a rare clotting disorder. The Telegraph reports:

The European Medicine’s Agency has said they “cannot rule out definitively” a link to a rare clotting disorder.

The agency will update its guidance to include an explanation about the potential risks on both the patient leaflet and in the information for healthcare professionals, the chief of the EMA said.

But Emer Cooke said in a briefing the “clear” conclusion of the review was that the vaccine “benefits in protecting people from Covid with the associated risk of death or hospitalisation outweighs the possible risks.”

The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has also today stressed the safety of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, pointing to the fact that just five cases of a rare blood clot on the brain have occurred among the 11 million people in the UK who have taken it.

Worth reading in full.

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Matt Mounsey
Matt Mounsey
4 years ago

The EMA can’t even tell you that the vaccine going into your arm is the same as the one they’ve tested, let alone that it’s safe and effective.

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Cristi.Neagu
Cristi.Neagu
4 years ago

They also said lockdowns work, and “15 days to flatten the curve”, and that masks work. So excuse me if i’m somewhat skeptical.

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TheBluePill
TheBluePill
4 years ago
Reply to  Cristi.Neagu

And that asymptomatic transmission is common, and that children are major transmission vectors (Whitless said that again 10 minutes ago), and that all ages are affected badly (again see Whitless 10 minutes ago), and that the virus is common (ditto), and that it spreads like wildfire in the pub, and that cheap existing medicines are useless, and track and trace is the way out.

The truth is that asymptomatic transmission is around 0.7%, children do not spread the disease, only the oldest and frailest are badly affected (as with any respiratory disease), the virus is currently vanishingly rare even ignoring false positives, negligible spread has been tracked down to pubs, Ivermectin and probably Hydroxychloroquine are cheap and effective, and track and trace has been worse than useless.

Almost everything they say is the opposite of the truth. Spot the pattern and apply it to vaccines.

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lds001
lds001
4 years ago

Have the people on the panel declared any conflict of interest I wonder? They are not even named anywhere I can see. Where else will the ‘experts’ come from if not the industry itself.

And also – so much for the famous precautionary principle.

In any case, the word is getting out – many people like me I suspect, personally know more people who have complained of reactions (some lingering) to the vaccine that people who have had covid.

Is it really necessary? – ask yourself. because its a one way ticket ….

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Steve Hayes
Steve Hayes
4 years ago

The (so called) vaccines are “safe and effective” say the makers, the politicians, the health authorities and the corporate media journalists, whilst they are all silent on the vaccination adverse reaction deaths. Apparently, people dying shortly after being injected with one of these so called vaccines is pure coincidence.

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