Sweden Records More Than 30K Cases Of Side Effects Tied To COVID Jabs
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As Europe pushes ahead with its vaccination program, the Nordic countries are reporting a surge in damaging side effects.
In the country, the tally has surpassed 30K with the majority of these reactions reported in patients who received the AstraZeneca jab.
Sweden’s Medical Products Agency reported that as of last week, the Scandinavian nation had tallied 31,844 reports of adverse reactions linked to its vaccine rollout.
Sweden presently offers 3 different COVID-19 jabs: Moderna, Pfizer and AstraZeneca, with the latter being the most widely available (while other European states like Germany have sought to offer substitutes to younger patients, who are more vulnerable to dangerous cerebral blood clots, which are a rare – but not unheard of – side effect).
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Over 30,000 Vaccine Side Effects Reported in Sweden
Vast majority related to AstraZeneca injection
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The Swedish Medical Products Agency has been inundated by reports of side effects after vaccination against COVID-19.
A total of 31,844 adverse reaction reports have been registered so far this year. This amount corresponds to what the authority usually receives in four years. Wholly three quarters of the reports come from private individuals.
“There is an exceptionally large number of suspected side effects that are being reported now”, Veronica Arthurson, unit manager at the Medical Products Agency, said at a press conference, as quoted by the medical newspaper
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Sweden records 30,000 suspected side effects from Covid vaccines, with AstraZeneca’s jab linked to more than half of all reportsEurope 2021-05-13, by Editor Comments Off 4
An official tally of suspected side effects resulting from Covid vaccination in Sweden has surpassed 30,000, with the majority of cases occurring in people inoculated with AstraZeneca’s shot.
According to the Swedish Medical Products Agency, as of last week, the Scandinavian nation had received 31,844 reports of adverse reactions linked to the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines. Sweden is currently offering three variants of the drug. There are currently 2,103 reports of side effects from the Moderna shot, while the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been associated with 9,117 health issues. But the number o