The Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is being withdrawn worldwide: “it can cause a rare and dangerous side effect.”

[ThrobbingHood]

The Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is being withdrawn worldwide, months after the pharmaceutical giant admitted for the first time in court documents that it can cause a rare and dangerous side effect.

The vaccine can no longer be used in the European Union after the company voluntarily withdrew its “marketing authorisation”. The application to withdraw the vaccine was made on March 5 and came into effect on Tuesday.
Similar applications will be made in the coming months in the UK and in other countries that had approved the vaccine, known as Vaxzevria.

The decision to withdraw it brings to an end the use of the jab, which was heralded by Boris Johnson as a “triumph for British science” and credited with saving more than six million lives.
AstraZeneca said the vaccine was being removed from markets for commercial reasons. It said the vaccine was no longer being manufactured or supplied, having been superseded by updated vaccines that tackle new variants.

Vaxzevria has come under intense scrutiny in recent months over a very rare side effect, which causes blood clots and low blood platelet counts. AstraZeneca admitted in court documents lodged with the High Court in February that the vaccine “can, in very rare cases, cause TTS”.

TTS – which stands for Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome – has been linked to at least 81 deaths in the UK as well as hundreds of serious injuries. AstraZeneca is being sued by more than 50 alleged victims and grieving relatives in a High Court case.

But AstraZeneca has insisted the decision to withdraw the vaccine is not linked to the court case or its admission that it can cause TTS. It said the timing was pure coincidence.

In a statement the company said: “We 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.

“Our efforts have been recognised by governments around the world and are widely regarded as being a critical component of ending the global pandemic.

“As multiple, variant Covid-19 vaccines have since been developed, there is a surplus of available updated vaccines. This has led to a decline in demand for Vaxzevria, which is no longer being manufactured or supplied. AstraZeneca has therefore taken the decision to initiate withdrawal of the marketing authorisations for Vaxzevria within Europe.

“We will now work with regulators and our partners to align on a clear path forward to conclude this chapter and significant contribution to the Covid-19 pandemic.”

The Telegraph has been told that the company will withdraw marketing authorisations in other countries, including the UK, where it has regulatory approval. AstraZeneca never had approval for the vaccine to be used in the US.

The company said: “We will partner with regulatory authorities globally to initiate marketing authorisation withdrawals for Vaxzevria, where no future commercial demand for the vaccine is expected.”

The Government largely stopped using the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine by the autumn of 2021, by which time it had supplied about 50 million doses in the UK. It was replaced in the UK with Pfizer and Moderna jabs in time for the winter booster campaign at the end of 2021.

Marco Cavaleri, head of vaccines at the European Medicines Agency, the body which is responsible for drug and medicine safety within the EU, told Italian media: “The authorisation of the anti-Covid vaccine Vaxzevria by AstraZeneca will be withdrawn and the process has already officially started with the European Commission. This is in line with the expectations that no-longer-used and updated vaccines will be withdrawn, as per our indication.”

Mr Cavaleri said he expected all the “monovalent” vaccines – which dealt only with the original Wuhan strain – to be withdrawn in time.

AstraZeneca accepted the vaccine can cause TTS in a legal document in February this year. The causal mechanism is not known.

 

[Savvir]

3 billion doses globally….


Only Linked to 81 deaths…



Looks like it was a net benefit over not being vaccinated at all…

 

[acri1]

The antivax thing is pretty at this point, time to reup your right-wing talking points

 

[DrHackenbush]

That's 2 of the 4 vaccines pulled off the market so far eh

Do you really think a vaccine you took several times & didn’t stop you from getting it or transmitting it saved millions of lives?

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

I remember years ago on this site when you had posters that would downplay this information and even want it suppressed. News like this should also be transparent even if people don't want to hear it.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

That's 2 of the 4 vaccines pulled off the market so far eh

Do you really think a vaccine you took several times & didn’t stop you from getting it or transmitting it saved millions of lives?

find a time machine and go back and argue about this shyt. the vaccine reduced severity of symptoms and chances of hospitalization. i have a hard time believing in 5 years you haven't been able to grasp this basic shyt. don't respond back. nobody will argue with you. if you want to engage this shyt still go back in time

 

[Ohene]

Ppl still taking covid vaccines? lol

 

[Bugzbunny129]

Anyone who believed this shyt was safe out the box is a moron.

They literally “find out” shyt is bad 30 years later but im sposed to believe they developed something in 6 months thats jot dangerous?

Same people said oxy was safe. That it washt addictive. Yet even when you got measured pills it killed 3x more than street heroin you dont know whats in it did. Now fent kills 10x the numbers dope did because they banned all opiates cause those idiots killed themselves with oxy.

Just a new way to make war on poor people.

None of it makws sense. None of it is for your health. You can find 100 examples of this in 5 min.

But if you didnt take it they called you brainwashed. Yall literally need to wash your braisn because thinking that is retarded.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

I remember years ago on this site when you had posters that would downplay this information and even want it suppressed. News like this should also be transparent even if people don't want to hear it.

i remember when we got passed this....

most of the information was bs. it was not downplayed. for every real article you had 50 fake ones. furthermore why do you think antivaxx crowd moved on? nothing they said would happen happened. we didn't all die, or go crazy or grow new limbs or get the mark of the beast.

you dudes still can't be stuck over there. shyt got silent because most of that shyt was dead wrong

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

i remember when we got passed this....

most of the information was bs. it was not downplayed. for every real article you had 50 fake ones. furthermore why do you think antivaxx crowd moved on? nothing they said would happen happened. we didn't all die, or go crazy or grow new limbs or get the mark of the beast.

you dudes still can't be stuck over there. shyt got silent because most of that shyt was dead wrong

I'm not antivaxx, so save that argument and rhetoric for someone who is as I actually got the vaccine.

All speaking of is transparency and none of the other shyt you're talking about.

No different than putting the side effects on pill bottles and other medications. That's transprency.

 

[The Pledge]

Ppl still taking covid vaccines? lol

Yeah, old people and those with breathing problems.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Anyone who believed this shyt was safe out the box is a moron.

They literally “find out” shyt is bad 30 years later but im sposed to believe they developed something in 6 months thats jot dangerous?

Same people said oxy was safe. That it washt addictive. Yet even when you got measured pills it killed 3x more than street heroin you dont know whats in it did. Now fent kills 10x the numbers dope did because they banned all opiates cause those idiots killed themselves with oxy.

Just a new way to make war on poor people.

None of it makws sense. None of it is for your health.

NOBODY believed it was 100% safe. nobody had a better solution. we got the viral loads down and the severe infections down so that society could move on

here you guys are still LOOKING BACK STILL NOT UNDERSTANDING THE ACTUAL PURPOSE OF THE MASS VACCINATION. IT WAS NOT A CURE. The world didn't have 30 years to study a completely bulletproof solution. it was made in urgency using a new method. so now you've just created YET another conspiracy "it was a war on the poor" so they invented the virus and shut down the world to make millions sick to propagate this war on the poor? So in your rational and logical mind... all those governments did that on behalf of pharmaceutical companies to milk them years later.... riiiight.

when does it end? conspiracies have cooked peoples brains. it's one after another after another and you can't even account for all the ones that failed you just abandon them and make up new ones

MENTAL ILLNESS

 

[DrHackenbush]

find a time machine and go back and argue about this shyt. the vaccine reduced severity of symptoms and chances of hospitalization. i have a hard time believing in 5 years you haven't been able to grasp this basic shyt. don't respond back. nobody will argue with you. if you want to engage this shyt still go back in time

I honestly find it hard to believe that years later ppl still think the way you do. Still fast asleep. No regard at all for anyone that suffered as a result of this.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

The antivax thing is pretty at this point, time to reup your right-wing talking points

I thought we moved past this over a year ago

 

[Bugzbunny129]

NOBODY believed it was 100% safe. nobody had a better solution. we got the viral loads down and the severe infections down so that society could move on

here you guys are still LOOKING BACK STILL NOT UNDERSTANDING THE ACTUAL PURPOSE OF THE MASS VACCINATION. IT WAS NOT A CURE. The world didn't have 30 years to study a completely bulletproof solution. it was made in urgency using a new method. so now you've just created YET another conspiracy "it was a war on the poor" so they invented the virus and shut down the world to make millions sick to propagate this war on the poor? So in your rational and logical mind... all those governments did that on behalf of pharmaceutical companies to milk them years later.... riiiight.

when does it end? conspiracies have cooked peoples brains. it's one after another after another and you can't even account for all the ones that failed you just abandon them and make up new ones

MENTAL ILLNESS

Mental illness is you replying 3x in a row to random people who disagree with you in 5 min and then agreeing with parts of the pont only to talk around it.

Never took the jab. Never got sick.

Believe the medical community has interests at heart. Youd apply to be a tuskegee experimentee even if you knew they were injecting you with disease.

But yea we all mentally ill, and you arent. Sure.

Believe the people who created covid to stop it brehs. Stooopid