LONDON (AP) — Irish well being officers on Sunday advisable the non permanent suspension of the AstraZeneca vaccine after stories of great blood clotting after inoculations in Norway.
Dr. Ronan Glynn, Eire’s deputy chief medical officer, mentioned the advice was made after Norway’s medicines company reported 4 circumstances of blood clotting in adults after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine.
He mentioned that whereas there was no conclusive hyperlink between the vaccine and the circumstances, Irish well being officers are recommending the suspension of the vaccine’s rollout as a precaution. Danish, Norwegian and Icelandic authorities have taken related precautionary steps.
AstraZeneca mentioned in a press release Sunday that it “want to supply its reassurance on the protection of its COVID-19 vaccine based mostly on clear scientific proof.”
“The protection of the general public will at all times come first,” the British-Swedish biopharmaceutical firm mentioned, including that it is “protecting this difficulty underneath shut overview however accessible proof doesn’t affirm that the vaccine is the trigger.”
The corporate mentioned {that a} overview of security information of greater than 17 million individuals who have acquired the AstraZeneca vaccine within the European Union and the U.Ok. “has proven no proof of an elevated threat of pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or thrombocytopenia, in any outlined age group, gender, batch or in any specific nation.”
The World Well being Group and the European Union’s medicines regulator have beforehand mentioned that there was no hyperlink between the jab and an elevated threat of growing a clot.
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