Germany and France are the latest countries to pause their rollouts of the AstraZeneca jab because of fears over blood clotting. Boris Johnson, Britain's medicines regulator and AZ itself have all defended the vaccine.
Ireland and the Netherlands have joined the list of countries that have suspended the use of AstraZeneca's Covid vaccine because of fears over blood clotting.
Half of bosses won't let their staff return to offices if they refuse to take the Covid vaccine, according to a new survey of 300 business owners.
Concerns about the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine have intensified following reports of three Norwegian health workers suffering from blood clots after receiving the jab.
PHE found a 48% increase in infection risk among over 80s in the week after the first jab. The FDA found 40%. Now a study from Denmark finds 40%. Will the Government publish the data to set our minds at ease?
Denmark has temporarily halted the administration of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine following reports of cases of blood clots forming. Austria has also paused usage while investigating a death from coagulation disorders.
Historian and Lockdown Sceptics regular Guy de la Bédoyère, who wrote a book about the development of the Polio vaccine, explains why having the Covid jab was a no-brainer for him.
Travellers into Spain will need to show vaccine passports from May. That rules out unvaccinated Brits. But what about those with the vaccine? May could still be too early, warns Grant Shapps: "you can't say for certain".
In January, Grant Shapps said that if the Government did not fully unlock the country by early March, he would stand "on the barricades to get our freedoms back". This date has passed, but Mr Shapps has lost his nerve.
Since December 2020 the UK public has been unwittingly involved in a huge experiment that will reveal the clinical effects, both positive and negative, of the Pfizer/BioNTech (PF)1 and Oxford University/AstraZeneca (AZ)2 COVID-19 vaccines. Despite the absence of thorough animal trials of these products and lack of any human data beyond Phase 2 trials lasting a matter of months, they have been approved by the MHRA and are now being deployed in a programme of mass vaccination. As part of its statutory functions, as well as its legal and moral duty, the MHRA is responsible for monitoring the effects of these vaccines to ensure that their benefits to patients outweigh any risks.3 There are a number of reasons for anticipating that these particular vaccines pose more risk to the general public than traditional vaccines. Traditional vaccines contain products against which the immune system directly generates antibodies. These may, for instance, be inactivated forms of an otherwise harmful virus. Whatever their nature, they are not intimately associated with living human cells. In contrast the PF and AZ vaccines operate by hijacking the protein-producing machinery of human cells causing them to produce and display the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The immune system then raises antibodies against these proteins, thus providing protection against the real virus. However, the workings of the ...
