We don't have the Oxford/AstraZenica vaccine approved in North America so it doesn't make the news.WHO says no link between AstraZeneca vaccine and blood clots
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said there was no risk from taking AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine as some countries have paused distribution over blood clot concerns.Despite no …thehill.com
"The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said there was no risk from taking AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine as some countries have paused distribution over blood clot concerns.
Despite no clear evidence of a link, countries including Iceland, Denmark and Norway have halted their use of AstraZeneca's vaccine following reports that it could be connected to blood clots."
"The World Health Organization said Friday that there is no reason to stop using the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, as a growing number of countries in Europe and elsewhere have moved to halt its use over blood clot concerns."
First I heard about this.
But I've been following this story, I am not convinced these are not simple coincidences. Blood clots occur for lots of different reasons. It appears that the cases of blood clots appearing in people who have taken the OX/AZ vaccine occurs at exactly the same rate that it occurs in the population at large.
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Looks like Europe is pretty much screwed. The UK broke away from the EU and one of the benefits of doing that is that breaking away allowed the UK to approve vaccines and administer them. The EU nations, even advanced nations like France and Germany, are mired in red tape and a slow vaccine approval process. That set everything behind, including ordering vaccines, so now the US is taking delivery of drugs it ordered LAST YEAR while the EU nations are will wait MONTHS to get more.
All while the new variants are increasing cases on the continent.
Europe Confronts a Covid-19 Rebound as Vaccine Hopes Recede
Contagion is rising again in the EU despite months of restrictions on daily life as more-virulent virus strains outpace vaccinations, with a mood of gloom and frustration settling on the continent.
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Europe Confronts a Covid-19 Rebound as Vaccine Hopes Recede
Europe Confronts a Covid-19 Rebound as Vaccine Hopes Recede
Slow vaccinations, outpaced by virus variants, and indecision by EU governments are deepening the continent’s gloom
Slow vaccinations, outpaced by virus variants, and indecision by EU governments are deepening the continent’s gloom
By in Rome, in Berlin and in Paris
Updated March 12, 2021 11:08 am ET
The European Union’s fight against Covid-19 is stuck in midwinter, even as spring and vaccinations spur hope of improvement in the U.S. and U.K.
Contagion is rising again in much of the EU, despite months of restrictions on daily life, as more-virulent virus strains outpace vaccinations. A mood of gloom and frustration is settling on the continent, and governments are caught between their promises of progress and the bleak epidemiological reality.
Virus infections and deaths have been falling rapidly in the U.S. and U.K. since January as inoculations take off among the elderly and other vulnerable groups. In the EU, however, new Covid-19 cases have been rising again since mid-February. U.S. infections and deaths, which were higher on a per-capita basis for most of 2020, have fallen below the bloc’s.
In much of the continent, the spread of the more-aggressive variant first detected in the U.K. is behind the worsening of the pandemic, undoing strenuous efforts to rein in the virus since the fall with an array of restrictions that have brought the bloc’s economic recovery to a standstill.
Governments and public-health experts say only a combination of accelerated vaccinations and gradual reopening can defeat Covid-19’s latest rebound. But the EU’s efforts continue to suffer from its slowness in procuring and approving vaccines, production delays at vaccine makers, and bureaucratic holdups in injecting available doses.
So far, there is nothing like the acute hospital crisis that overwhelmed healthcare systems in parts of Italy and Spain a year ago. Instead, the bloc’s public-health crisis has become chronic, with authorities struggling constantly to tamp down the flames. . . story continues at link above.