Dublin s Q102 By Eamonn Falvey The medicines watchdog s investigating the first possible link between an Irish patient s blood clot and the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The Health Products Regulatory Authority received the case after the European Medicines Agency said there was a possible link between the jab and CVRT - an unusual clot in the brain.
The Authority s evaluating if this is consistent with the rare blood clotting events that were the focus of the EMA s safety review.
HPRA Chief Executive Dr Lorraine Nolan says the patient involved has made a recovery and is expected to leave hospital soon.
She says they haven t established a link to the vaccine in this case yet.
Watchdog Examines First Irish Blood Clot Case
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Updated / Monday, 21 Dec 2020
22:06 We re clearly now in a third wave We re clearly now in a third wave’ @President MU Prof Philip Nolan says as he sets out some detail on #Covid19 trends | https://t.co/bMeJ5iAIlcpic.twitter.com/Wc9rWjmE0L RTÉ News (@rtenews) December 21, 2020
Professor Philip Nolan said there are very rapidly rising numbers, and we re clearly now in a third wave .
The positivity rate of tests is also rising rapidly, which is a sign of widespread transmission in the community, he said.
Of grave concern for NPHET, he said, is that in the second wave in October there was a very long period of time where the disease was confined to young people, specifically those aged 19-24.