We have to remember that the benefits far outweigh the risks when it comes to a Covid vaccine.
That’s the message from local pharmacist Leonie Grant who was commenting after more concerns were raised around the Astrazeneca jab and it’s apparent link to blood clots in patients.
The National Immunisation Advisory Committee will decide in the coming days if it needs to issue further advice to Government about the vaccine.
The Health Products Regulatory Authority has said it had been notified of 18 reports of blood clots possibly associated with the jab but none are of the very rare type that have caused concern.
Reports UK secretly shipped hundreds of thousands of vaccines to Australia
10:35 Thursday, 08 April 2021
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It’s reported hundreds of thousands of doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine have been secretly shipped from the UK to Australia.
The Sydney Morning Herald says the origin of the injections was kept quiet because of concerns it might cause controversy in Britain.
It’s thought the exports were never at the expense of the UK’s rollout.
It comes as The National Immunisation Advisory Committee is to decide if it needs to give the Government fresh advice on the AstraZeneca vaccine.
It’ll meet today, April 8th, to discuss the EMA’s decision to list rare blood clots as a possible side effect of the injection.
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Dublin s Q102 By Eamonn Falvey The medicines watchdog s investigating the first possible link between an Irish patient s blood clot and the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The Health Products Regulatory Authority received the case after the European Medicines Agency said there was a possible link between the jab and CVRT - an unusual clot in the brain.
The Authority s evaluating if this is consistent with the rare blood clotting events that were the focus of the EMA s safety review.
HPRA Chief Executive Dr Lorraine Nolan says the patient involved has made a recovery and is expected to leave hospital soon.
She says they haven t established a link to the vaccine in this case yet.
Dublin woman suffers blood clot potentially linked to AstraZeneca vaccine
The healthy woman received the jab last month and was admitted to hospital after suffering severe headaches
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