European Medicines Agency (EMA) official Marco Cavaleri said there was a link between AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine and rare reports of blood clots, including pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis and thrombocytopenia, according to a Reuters report. Two separate research groups in Europe had reached similar conclusions regarding the blood clots in March. AstraZeneca had previously downplayed the possibility that…
European researchers claim to find thrombosis trigger in AstraZeneca vaccine
Two separate teams of scientists in Germany and Norway concluded that the AstraZeneca vaccine could cause an autoimmune reaction, which in turn causes thrombosis in a small number of patients. The problem could be treated using a blood thinner and immunoglobulin, the German research team determined. The Norwegian researchers claim to have identified an antibody…
Blood clot fears prompt Europe to suspend use of AstraZeneca vaccine
Although no causal link has been found between blood clots and the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, several European nations have decided to suspend its use out of an abundance of caution. Germany, France, Italy, and Spain recently halted the use of the vaccine following reports of blood clots in vaccinated people’s brains. There have been 37…