AstraZeneca vaccine surveilled by scientists… following Ireland, Denmark, Spain, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, and even Italy, Germany and France have announced they were halting vaccination with AstraZeneca “as a precaution” after Norway reported the death of a nurse ten days after being vaccinated.
This Tuesday March 16, the World Health Organization called exceptionally meeting in Geneva to assess the safety of the product created by the Swedish-British laboratory. The organization called for keeping vaccinating. “We do not want people to panic and we would, for the time being, recommend that countries continue vaccinating with AstraZeneca”, WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said, before explaining they have found "an association between these events and the vaccine".
As for WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, he intended to explain the situation: "several more countries have suspended the use of AstraZeneca vaccines as a precautionary measure, after reports of blood clots in people who had received the vaccine from two batches produced in Europe. This does not necessarily mean these events are linked to vaccination, but it’s routine practice to investigate them, and it shows that the surveillance system works and that effective controls are in place". He also said "WHO’s Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety has been reviewing the available data, is in close contact with the European Medicines Agency".
Suspensions that led the European Medicines Agency to gather as well, this Thursday March 18, to take a stock on the ongoing investigation to find out if there is a correlation between these deaths and severe reactions and AstraZeneca vaccine.
