EU drug regulator: Unusual blood clot is 'very rare AstraZeneca side effect'

[Eugene]

Earlier DU thread: AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine plausibly linked to rare brain clots, European regulators say

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Source: BBC

EU drug regulator: Unusual blood clot is 'very rare AstraZeneca side effect'

7 April 2021

The EU's medicines regulator says unusual blood clots should be listed as a very rare side effect of the AstraZeneca vaccine for Covid-19.

After a study looking at 86 such cases in the EU, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) concluded the benefits of the vaccine outweighed the risk.

There was no definite causal link, and although most cases were in women under 60, they also occurred in men.

The EU has vaccinated more than 20 million people.

At a press briefing, EMA executive director Emer Cooke said that the combination of blood clots and low blood platelets was very rare but was seen in "all ages, and in men and women", and there was no available evidence of "specific risk factors such as age, gender, or previous medical history of clotting disorders".

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56665150

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Source: BBC

Covid: Under-30s offered alternative to AstraZeneca jab

By Nick Triggle
Health correspondent

7 April 2021

Under-30s are to be offered an alternative Covid jab to the AstraZeneca vaccine due to the evidence linking it to rare blood clots, the UK's vaccine advisory body says.

A review by drugs regulator MHRA found by the end of March 79 people in the UK had suffered rare blood clots after vaccination - 19 of whom had died.

The regulator said this was not proof the jab had caused the clots.

But it said the link was getting firmer.

Nearly two-thirds of the cases of rare clots were seen in women. The people who died were aged between 18 and 79.

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People who have had their first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine should still get their second dose, the MHRA said. Only those who suffered one of these rare blood clots after the first dose should not get vaccinated, it added.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56665517

[NH Ethylene]

1. The same is being said about Joohnson & Johnsontoday, which is also an adenovirus vaccine.

There are just a few cases of clots out of many, many vaccines, so a pretty rare side effect. They should just admit it. The risks far outweigh the benefits.