{"id":287187,"date":"2024-05-09T06:14:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T06:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=287187"},"modified":"2024-05-11T05:36:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T05:36:47","slug":"astrazeneca-withdraws-covid-vaccine-worldwide-after-admitting-it-can-cause-rare-blood-clots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=287187","title":{"rendered":"AstraZeneca withdraws Covid vaccine worldwide after admitting it can cause rare blood clots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arpan Rai \u2013 The Independent May 8, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

AstraZeneca<\/a> is withdrawing its Covid<\/a>-19 vaccine<\/a> worldwide, months after the pharma giant admitted the drug could cause very rare, but life-threatening, injuries<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The British-Swedish drugmaker has already withdrawn its EU marketing authorisation for the vaccine, branded Vaxzevria<\/a> since 2021. The authorisation is the approval to market a drug in EU\u2019s member states. The withdrawal was due to a \u201csurplus of available updated vaccines\u201d<\/a> against new variants of the novel coronavirus, the company said.<\/p>\n

The application to withdraw the vaccine from the EU was made on 5 March and came into effect on 7 May.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs multiple variant Covid-19 vaccines have since been developed there\u2019s a surplus of available updated vaccines,” AstraZeneca said, adding that this led to a fall in demand for Vaxzevria, which is no longer manufactured or supplied.<\/p>\n

AstraZeneca recently admitted that its vaccine, initially called Covishield<\/a>, could cause very rare side effects like blood clots<\/a> and low blood platelet counts, The Telegraph <\/em>reported.<\/p>\n

The admission came after the company was slapped with a class action lawsuit in the UK, which claimed that the vaccine had caused deaths and severe injuries and sought damages up to \u00a3100m for about 50 victims.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is admitted that the AZ vaccine can, in very rare cases, cause TTS. The causal mechanism is not known,\u201d AstraZeneca said in court documents in February, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n

TTS is thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, which is characterised by blood clots and low blood platelet counts in humans.<\/p>\n

AstraZeneca\u2019s vaccine was developed in collaboration with Oxford University and produced by the Serum Institute of India<\/a>. It was widely administered in over 150 countries, including Britain and India.<\/p>\n

Some studies conducted during the pandemic found the vaccine was 60 to 80 per cent<\/a> effective in protecting against the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n

But subsequent research found that it caused some people to develop potentially fatal blood clots.<\/p>\n

AstraZeneca\u2019s admission that the vaccine could potentially prove lethal ran counter to its insistence in 2023 that it would \u201cnot accept that TTS is caused by the vaccine at a generic level\u201d.<\/p>\n

In April 2021, the World Health Organisation also confirmed that the vaccine could have fatal side effects. \u201cA very rare adverse event called thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, involving unusual and severe blood clotting events associated with low platelet counts, has been reported after vaccination with this vaccine.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement, AstraZeneca said: \u201cWe are incredibly proud of the role Vaxzevria played in ending the global pandemic. According to independent estimates, over 6.5 million lives were saved in the first year of use alone, and over three billion doses were supplied globally.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur efforts have been recognised by governments around the world and are widely regarded as being a critical component of ending the global pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Proving it wasn\u2019t just a \u2018conspiracy theory\u2019: AstraZeneca has withdrawn its Covid vaccine and admitted that it did have life-threatening side effects. Following a lawsuit against it, which claimed that the vaccine caused deaths and severe injuries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":267205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Health_and_the_New_World_Order"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287188,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287187\/revisions\/287188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/267205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}