Regulator Vouches for AstraZeneca, Despite Suspension by European Countries
The suspension impedes Europe’s already troubled vaccination campaign amid a third coronavirus wave. Europe’s top drug regulator said there was no sign that the shot had caused dangerous side effects.
A drive-through vaccination center in Milan on Monday, the day Italy suspended use of the AstraZeneca vaccine.Credit.Alessandro Grassani for The New York Times
Published March 16, 2021Updated March 23, 2021
LONDON After the European Union’s biggest countries suspended the use of AstraZeneca’s vaccine, the continent’s top drug regulator pushed back hard on Tuesday against fears about the shot, saying there was no sign of its causing rare but dangerous problems, and strong evidence that its lifesaving benefits “outweigh the risk of the side effects.”
Chris Bowen says other countries struck deals for a billion doses of the Pfizer vaccine before Australia signed its agreement. Is he correct?
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Former opposition spokesman for health Chris Bowen says a billion doses of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine were accounted for around the world before the Government made a deal with the company in November.
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The first doses of Australia s COVID-19 vaccination program have at last been administered, but concerns have been expressed that the rollout will be slowed by supply constraints.
In announcing Australia s November deal with Pfizer to supply 10 million doses of its vaccine, Prime Minister Scott Morrison claimed the agreement, along with another deal signed with Novavax for 50 million doses, had put Australia at the front of the queue .
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Drilon and Robredo’s sickening lies on PH vaccination Rigoberto D. Tiglao
I FIND it sickening for the Yellows, especially its eldest stalwart Sen. Franklin Drilon and Vice President Maria Leonor Robredo, to use the Covid-19 pandemic which should be uniting us all to contain it to irresponsibly throw mud at the government’s efforts to procure the needed vaccines.
Drilon, in a recent press release, “lamented how the Philippines is lagging behind several countries in its Covid-19 vaccination plans, citing that 6 out of 10 countries in Southeast Asia have already begun their vaccination programs, while the Philippines is still scrambling to secure supplies. Among the countries that have started rolling out the jabs are Singapore, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar, leaving the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Thailand behind.” Robredo similarly claimed that the Philippines is “behind other neighboring countries” in vaccinating its citizens