The jab, developed with Oxford University, can no longer be used in the EU. READ MORE:AstraZeneca's Covid vaccine – once heralded as a 'triumph for science' – is being withdrawn worldwide.
In February, the pharmaceutical titan admitted in documents lodged with the High Court that it 'can, in very rare cases, cause thrombocytopenia syndrome '. In a statement today, the company said: 'According to independent estimates, over 6.5million lives were saved in the first year of use alone and over three billion doses were supplied globally.
8 December 2020: Phase three trial results of the AstraZeneca's jab are published. These are what health officials will use to approve the jab for use in the UK4 January 2021: First AstraZeneca doses start being dished out. Brian Pinker, 82, is the first person to receive the jab outside of clinical trials8 February 2021: Over-70s are called forward
August 2022: Government sources say they will not order anymore AstraZeneca Covid vaccines instead focuses on mRNA alternativesApril 2023: Widower of a BBC presenter Lisa Shaw who died after having the vaccine said he has 'no alternative' but to sue AstraZeneca 'As multiple, variant Covid vaccines have since been developed, there is a surplus of available updated vaccines.
Other studies calculated that a single dose reduced the likelihood of hospitalisation by up to 94 per cent. Stomach pain, a rash and excessive sweating were uncommon, strikes roughly one in 100 people who get vaccinated.It was only once the door was opened for millions more Brits to get the jab, as the UK did during the first few months of 2021, that another complication was spotted.
Estimates suggest the risk of blood clots occurring from taking AstraZeneca's jab is in the region of one in 50,000.Side effects from the AstraZeneca vaccine generally only occurred within the first four weeks of receiving it.As jabs are given as a single dose at a time, experts claim adverse effects generally only occur a short time after receiving the injection — unlike with medication that people take for years.
Researchers believe the rare side effect occurs due to the modified cold virus lurking in the jab having an adverse effect on platelets in the blood, triggering clotting
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