Seems to be over. EMA says that despite more cases than expected of particular, rare, thromboses, it's safe. A possible minor increased risk in one area is greatly outweighed by massively reduced risks elsewhere. It's the difference between a one in a million chance & one in a hundred.
I would check the info on the vaccine before taking any more fever-reducer or NSAID's. Some of the info I have come across advises against doing so, at least with certain vaccines/doses and patients in certain criteria.
On the subject of vaccine exports, I'm baffled as to why the EU is looking to prevent exports of vaccines to the UK when they've done everything possible to prevent or discourage administration of the AZ vaccine, and that's been the bulk of shots administered in the UK.Well it appears that the EU is going to ban AZ vaccine exports because of slow deliveries to the EU. They are filthy that AZ have delivered fully to the Poms and drip fed the EU. However considering that the EU nations stuffed up their individual COVID-19 prevention precautions methinks that the EU is somewhat hypocritical.
EU threatens to ban AstraZeneca exports if vaccines not delivered
EU chief says AstraZeneca could see its COVID vaccine exports blocked if it does not meet its contractual obligations.www.aljazeera.com
I couldn't find anything specific and wasn't given any direct advice at the time of my shot - so, I went to the usual solutions.
Your guess is as good as mine. The EU hierarchy, both political and bureaucratic, appears to be at a loss at what to do so it is retreating into itself and falling back on the French, German and Italian SOP. Bureaucracy and orders.
Yes the pollies in the EU halting the AZ vaccine jabs because of some clotting problems that the regulatory authorities were quite happy because of the quite low numbers. Seems the pollies think themselves more highly qualified than the scientific experts.
And therein lies the problem with the pandemic response for a lot of countries in the past year. I've just finished reading "Unmasked : The politics of pandemics" by Bill Bowtell. Nice concise short read that shows what happens when politicians don't take scientific warnings seriously and are slow to respond. Bowtell was at the forefront of the HIV/AIDs crisis response in Australia so he knows a few things about dealing with pandemics. As he says, "nature creates viruses, politics creates pandemics".
Yep, because of the CCP's actions around the time of the outbreak and since, the PRC cannot and will not change its story on the outbreak. It's pretty rich them accusing the WHO and others of politicising the investigation, when they themselves politicised the pandemic right from the start. Just shows you the hypocrisy.
As reported in the Oz today, the NZ government is the only one of the 5EYES partners which has refused to criticise the WHO led investigation into the pandemic. Headline “NZ Shuts it’s Eyes to appease China”
No probs and unfortunately that doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
www.flightglobal.com
I suspect that the NZ gubberment will release it's own worded statement in the next while... but like you didn't surprise me in the slightest either...