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The Thai Ministry of Health has temporarily stopped vaccination with the AstraZeneca vaccine after some reports have surfaced in Europe about the development of blood clots as a side effect. However, the WHO says no direct link has been established between the vaccine and clots.
The ministry made the decision yesterday morning before Prime Minister Prayut and two ministers were scheduled to be vaccinated at the Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute in Nonthaburi. Asked if he was concerned about side effects, Prayut said: “I prepared to get the injection and am not afraid of this jab. I am not afraid of anything."
Medical experts do not expect there to be a relationship between the side effect and the AstraZeneca vaccine. Professor Dr Prasit, from Siriraj Hospital, says research data has not shown that there are serious risks like this with vaccination, after a woman in Denmark died of a pulmonary embolism after her shot.
“There have been no other similar cases worldwide. Nevertheless, it is good to temporarily suspend vaccinations and do research in the meantime, that is completely normal," said Kulkanya, chairman of the Adverse Events Following Immunization committee.
Dr. Yong, head of the Center of Excellence in Clinical Virology at Chulalongkorn University, added that 'Europeans are three times more likely to develop thrombosis than Asians'.
The 117.300 doses of AstraZeneca that went to Thailand at the end of last month come from a factory in South Korea. The now suspected ABV5300 series was produced in the European Union.
Source: Bangkok Post
Of course it is wise for Thailand to first want more certainty about this sporadic effect of the vaccine.
This time it was an accidental thrombosis, which will later turn out to be a coincidence, with which AstraZenica had nothing to do, and I wonder what will come to light in the future of coincidences with which one suspects a connection.
Every coincidence is grist to the mill of vaccine opponents, who like to take these few deaths for granted in order to convince others that they are right.
Deaths that, as a minority, can hardly be mentioned in percentages, and cannot be compared in any way, with all those thousands of corona deaths who would have liked this vaccine.
Apart from Prayuth, who says she is afraid of nothing, I would rather have the vaccine today than tomorrow, just like my British compatriots.
Correct. In program Max, GP Ted van Essen said that about 200 people over the age of 80 get thrombosis every week in the Netherlands. It is therefore logical that thrombosis cases are reported after vaccination of people over 80. Van Essen also reported that in the phase 3 study there were 4 cases of thrombosis in the vaccinated group and 8 in the placebo group! But immediately said that this was probably a coincidence and that no conclusions should be drawn from this that the vaccine would prevent thrombosis. (I assume because for such a study you have to work specifically with large numbers of people with thrombosis).
Zero (!) flu deaths since the beginning of 2020. That keeps the death rate since the outbreak nicely balanced.
Frightened people, the elderly and people with underlying complaints: please get vaccinated. We have to go through.
I also received my first injection. From AstraZeneca. I have not bothered myself about the negative messages about this vaccine. But I started to squeeze it a bit when Hugo de Jonge said there was nothing wrong.
From the NRC: The number of people with blood clot disorders among vaccinees has so far not exceeded the average population, according to the EMA. As of last Wednesday, 30 cases have been recorded among the nearly five million people vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine in Europe.
In the Netherlands, the Lareb Side Effects Center received one report of a suspected thrombosis. This one is not serious.
This way you can look for a connection with everything, time to go back to work and do as many vaccinations as possible.
If you have a population of 17 million people like in the Netherlands, you always have a certain number with all kinds of diseases and ailments. From that number, a certain amount will then also manifest. They would not be mentioned in the media because they are considered normal to do. But because we are working worldwide on corona, measures and vaccinations, we want to know every inch of each other's phenomenon. The Prime Minister of Denmark has unnecessarily caused unrest. She would have done better to report the thromboses that occurred to the EMA. It surprises me that Thailand has to sound the alarm. With those barely 120K doses, only 60K people can be vaccinated. In short: what are they afraid of? But I think those 120K will be given to the Upperclass and surely one of them would be amiss after vaccination. Shame and blame!
From a vascular surgeon friend:
Chantal Vandenbroeck
23 pm ·
For all those who still doubt astra zeneca vaccine: number of thrombosis in vaccinated group lower than in the control group! As a vascular surgeon, I can absolutely confirm that you run a greater risk of thrombogenic complications from a corona infection than from the vaccine! Correct information and Stay healthy
There is actually none of the vaccines in circulation, which is so critically viewed in many countries, as the Astra Zenica.
Much started with the fact that Astra Zenica first took healthy younger people for its test persons, and not people over 65.
This was partly the reason that the EU initially only allowed the vaccine for young people who did not yet belong to these over-65s.
And although the UK has already successfully administered the vaccine, admittedly with emergency authorisation, to people over 65, the limited authorization in the EU was already the first reason that many other countries viewed the vaccine with great skepticism.
Many in Germany and other EU states, although dying from the effects of covid-19 is much more realistic, refused to be vaccinated with this vaccine that has so unjustly lost its name to some.
In Germany and some other countries, many refrigerators are full of the Astra Zenica vaccine, although other vaccines are still very scarce, while the following age groups who think less, have to wait months for their vaccination, partly due to this refusal.
Long live the EU, which show at least in terms of their vaccination policy, that with all their wishes, talk, and different ideas, etc., they are actually much slower, to quickly and consistently face this virus.