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29 Nurses prepare doses of AstraZeneca vaccine at the Bamrasnaradura Infectious Diseases Institute in Nonthaburi on Friday morning, before authorities called off an event at which Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and cabinet members were to be vaccinated. (Bloomberg Photo)
The World Health Organization said on Friday there was no reason to stop using the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine after several countries including Thailand suspended the rollout over blood clot fears.
The WHO, which said its vaccines advisory committee was examining the safety data coming in, stressed that no causal link had been established between the vaccine and clotting.
The UN health agency also said that after the injection of more than 260 million coronavirus vaccine doses so far around the world, no deaths had yet been attributed directly to a Covid-19 jab.
Positivity at 1.6%
41% hospital beds available, 36% ICU beds available.
MRI accomplished yesterday, but even with Valium I couldn’t wear a mask in the tube. They let me wear it down around my chin when they weren’t in the room with me. Now I have to keep my fingers crossed for the next two weeks, because I was mask-less for about 90 minutes. I had to be mask-less in the dentist’s chair twice in the last year and now yesterday in the MRI. I’m pushing my luck, especially when I’m so close to getting my first jab early next month.