These cases were spread across 2.8 million AstraZeneca vaccine doses injected, or just over one case per 100,000 doses. “The benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccine in preventing Covid-19, with its associated risk of hospitalisation and death, outweigh the risks of side effects,” it said in a statement on March 31st. Notwithstanding, after some countries temporarily paused the AstraZeneca jab in mid-March, several countries have now suspended the vaccine again. “So, restricting the AstraZeneca vaccine to older people makes sense to me.”Norway and Sweden have taken the more radical step of suspending the AstraZeneca vaccine altogether. The AstraZeneca vaccine, they wrote, is associated with a thrombosis disorder “that clinically resembles heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT)”.

Source: The Local April 05, 2021 07:41 UTC