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08 Apr 2021 09:39
The decision to attach an advisory for under 50s to the AstraZenca vaccine is a precautionary measure, Secretary of the Department of Health Professor Brendan Murphy said. …this is a very, very rare event, and it is a highly precautionary position that Australia can take because we re in a fortunate position with COVID, he said. All vaccines have adverse effects. Some serious. Flu vaccines do. The Pfizer vaccine has a risk of anaphylaxis, which we ve seen. But this syndrome, after all of the work we ve done with the UK and Europe, does seem to be a real syndrome, and we now feel that, at an abundance of caution, given that this syndrome seems to occur mainly in younger people for whom the risk of severe COVID is not so great, that there is a basis to have a preferred recommendation for those under 50, Professor Murphy said.