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EU Regulator Backs AstraZeneca Covid Vaccine as It Speeds Safety Review
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March 16, 2021
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2:20Now PlayingThe European Union’s drugs regulator reiterated that the benefits of AstraZeneca Plc’s Covid vaccine outweigh the risks as it urgently reviews safety data following the suspension of shots by a growing number of countries.
“A situation like this is not unexpected when you vaccinate millions of people,” Emer Cooke, executive director of the European Medicines Agency, said at a press conference Tuesday as the agency reviews reports of blood clots in some people who received shots. There is “no indication that vaccination has caused these conditions.”
The comments follow dramatic measures by several EU member states to halt the use of Astra’s shot, potentially throwing the region’s already slow inoculation campaign further off track. The bloc’s health ministers are holding a video call on Tuesday, where they’re expected to discuss concerns over side effects.
The EMA’s safety committee has called an extraordinary meeting for Thursday to decide on any further recommendations. Cooke declined to list all the possible conclusions, mentioning an additional warning on the product or possibly more radical action, “if there is a problem that can’t be solved.”
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