British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has finally admitted that its coronavirus vaccine can cause blood clots.
The company and so-called experts around the world have long downplayed the causal link, much to the concerns of critics, despite numerous signs and fatalities over the years that suggested it.
blood clot shot
The Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is a viral vector vaccine developed in the United Kingdom that uses a modified version of a chimpanzee adenovirus.The shot is
approved It began use in the UK in December 2020 and was subsequently approved by the World Health Organization. The Biden administration has agreed to share up to 60 million doses with other countries, but they will not be initially deployed in the United States.
Vaccine ready by January 2022
injected all over the world Over 2.5 billion times.
More than 20 countries temporarily pulled the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine from the market in March 2021 following increasing reports of abnormal bleeding, thrombocytopenia, blood clots, and sudden death among various recipients. did.
Some government agencies were caught off guard because blood clotting was not touted as a side effect of the vaccine.Reuters
shown For example, Australia’s Federal Health and Safety Executive said it was surprised to learn that a 49-year-old nurse died from a “severe clotting disorder” after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine.
USA Today
shown Some of the cases that raised red flags in 2021 included blood clots in the lungs, legs, throughout the blood, and in the brain.
Researchers in Germany and Scandinavia concluded that some vaccine recipients developed a clotting disorder that activates platelets to produce antibodies that cause blood clots.
report New York Times. At the time, the condition was called “vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia,” and it was thought that one in 100,000 people would be affected by the condition.
In contrast, for patients under the age of 30, the vaccine will only prevent 0.8 out of 100,000 people from being admitted to the hospital due to COVID-19.
according to to the Telegraph.
AstraZeneca has repeatedly denied any causal relationship.
Focus on it In a statement on March 14, 2021, it said that after careful consideration, “we found no evidence of an increased risk of pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis (DVT), or thrombocytopenia.”, within defined age groups, genders, groups, or specific countries. ”
AstraZeneca added: “The available evidence does not support that the vaccine is the cause.” [of the clots]. ”
Despite the alarming number of apparent victims, various health authorities, including the European Medicines Agency,
was suggested “The benefits of the vaccine continue to outweigh its risks.”
Several European countries resumed vaccinations with the AstraZeneca vaccine in late March after the European Medicines Agency insisted it was “safe and effective”.
The World Health Organization doubled down in June 2022, claiming AstraZeneca is “safe and effective for individuals aged 18 and over.”
report BBC.
The cries of so-called experts
The temporary precautions taken by some European countries were criticized by U.S. medical experts.
paul offitdirector of the Vaccine Education Center and infectious disease expert at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, USA Today report at that time.
“It’s easy to make people afraid, but it’s very difficult to make them not be afraid,” Offit said. “It creates a perception that these vaccines are dangerous.”
Offit further suggested that “the only way out of this pandemic is vaccination. If we make people reluctant to get vaccinated, it’s going to be difficult to get out of this pandemic.”
Akiko Iwasaki, an epidemiologist at Yale University, said in March 2021, “Unless there is an unusually high incidence of blood clots among people who have received a particular vaccine, it is difficult to draw this kind of causal conclusion without knowing it. I think it’s very dangerous.”
Daniel Salmon of the Johns Hopkins Vaccine Safety Institute
Said The New York Times reported that the vaccine has not been proven to cause blood clots.
Peter Hotez, a cable news vaccine advocate and founding dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, said: “With the unnecessary suspension of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine, European countries may have created new problems. “There is a sex,” he claimed.
Hotez suggested that “the vaccine ecosystem is fragile and it won’t take long to get a vaccine vote outside the island.”
legal action
Father-of-two Jamie Scott suffered permanent brain damage after suffering a blood clot and bleeding in his brain after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine in April 2021. His wife said hospital staff told her three times that Scott would die. . Scott, who has survived his injuries so far, is confident the vaccine was effective.defective“— is currently trying to hold AstraZeneca accountable; report Telegraph.
Scott sued the company last year. Since then, at least 51 other alleged vaccine victims have followed his lead and launched a collective action along the following lines:
Section 2 of the UK Consumer Protection Act 1987. The plaintiffs include the widower of her husband and the two young children of 35-year-old Alpa Taylor, who died after receiving the injection.
A coroner determined in September 2021 that the mother of two died from a blood clot in her brain. She started experiencing stroke-like symptoms a week after receiving her first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
report Daily Mail.
If AstraZeneca loses in court, it could be required to pay about $100 million in damages. However, the British government will cover the company’s legal costs.
admission
AstraZeneca told Scott’s lawyers in March 2023: “We cannot accept that.” [thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome] It is caused by generic level vaccines. ”
However, The Telegraph reported that in legal documents filed with the UK High Court in February, the company said: “It is acknowledged that in very rare cases, the AZ vaccine may cause TTS. “The causal relationship is not clear.” is known. ”
After confirming the victim’s suspicions, the company questioned whether the plaintiff himself was the victim of such an “extremely rare case” and added, “TTS has confirmed that there is no AZ vaccine (or any other vaccine).” Individual cases may require expert evidence.
According to the International Council of Healthcare Organizations, a “very rare” side effect is one that occurs in fewer than 1 in 10,000 cases. report Independent.
The company also reportedly said that product information about the AstraZeneca vaccine was updated in April 2021 to confirm that the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine “may trigger TTS in very rare cases.” He claimed that he was trying to cover up himself. .
Kate Scott, wife of the first complainant, told the Telegraph: “The medical community has long accepted that VITT is caused by vaccines. We have questioned whether Jamie’s condition was caused by the jab. The only one we have is AstraZeneca.”
The victim’s wife said: “It took three years to get this permission. There has been progress, but we want to see more from them and the government. It’s time for things to move faster.” She said: “We need an apology and fair compensation for the affected families and other families. We have the truth on our side and we will not give up.”
“It took AstraZeneca a year to formally acknowledge that its vaccine caused this harm, but this was in 2016,” Sarah Moore, a partner at the law firm representing the class action lawsuit, said in a statement. “This has since been a widely accepted fact in the clinical community.” End of 2021: In that context, unfortunately, AstraZeneca, the government and its lawyers are playing strategic games and legal battles rather than seriously addressing the devastating impact the vaccine has had on the lives of their customers. It seems that he is enthusiastic about making a bargain. ”
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