AstraZeneca was one of the first companies to create and approve a COVID-19 vaccine, but their shot wasn’t widely used in Canada after concerns cropped up about the shots causing rare but serious blood clots. At the time Moderna and Pfizer’s COVID vaccines, which were also more effectiv...
Risk and benefit. Every medicine has it. And it's been brought into sharp focus by the rumble over AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine. Several countries have reported people developing blood clots soon after having the jab and have suspended the rollout as a precaution while medical regulators in...
A nursing assistant who was paralyzed after receiving a shot of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine will receive compensation from the South Korean state after she was recognized as a victim of an industrial accident. The health worker, whose name was not disclosed, had been inoculated against Covi...
That's a rate of 4.5 per million people. European regulator says 'no indication' Oxford-AstraZeneca jab is cause of blood clots And that does look a little higher than you would expect. Doctors estimate the background rate of CVST in people under 50 would be one or two a month per ...