Possible Side Effects of AstraZeneca Vaccine Come Into Sharper Focus © Alessandro Grassani for The New York Times Administering the AstraZeneca vaccine in Milan last month.
LONDON For months, European countries have seesawed between craving and rebuffing AstraZeneca’s vaccine, with the shot’s fortunes rising and falling on spats over supply and on questions over the efficacy of the vaccine itself.
But few concerns have proved as disruptive to the rollout of the world’s workhorse vaccine in Europe as reports of very rare blood clots in some recipients. Many countries responded by halting the shot’s use, only to start giving it again after an all-clear from regulators at the European Medicines Agency, and then stopped inoculations a second time in certain age groups after doctors became more concerned about the clots.
Possible Side Effects of AstraZeneca Vaccine Come Into Sharper Focus
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Trust in AstraZeneca Vaccine Is Shaken in Europe
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Regulator Vouches for AstraZeneca, Despite Suspension by European Countries
The suspension impedes Europe’s already troubled vaccination campaign amid a third coronavirus wave. Europe’s top drug regulator said there was no sign that the shot had caused dangerous side effects.
A drive-through vaccination center in Milan on Monday, the day Italy suspended use of the AstraZeneca vaccine.Credit.Alessandro Grassani for The New York Times
Published March 16, 2021Updated March 23, 2021
LONDON After the European Union’s biggest countries suspended the use of AstraZeneca’s vaccine, the continent’s top drug regulator pushed back hard on Tuesday against fears about the shot, saying there was no sign of its causing rare but dangerous problems, and strong evidence that its lifesaving benefits “outweigh the risk of the side effects.”
AstraZeneca Concerns Throw Europe s Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout Into Deeper Disarray
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