Johnson & Johnson Covid Vaccine Under EU Review Over Blood Clots
In recent months, the term “blood clots” has become associated with the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, but Europe’s medicines regulator is now reviewing possible links between this rare condition and the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) jab. Sky News has the story.
Europe’s drugs regulator is reviewing possible links between blood clots and J&J’s coronavirus vaccine.
The move comes after four serious cases of rare clots with low platelets were reported after the Covid jab, one of which was fatal, according to the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
The J&J (also known as Janssen) vaccine, which has proved 67% effective in preventing infection and completely effective at preventing hospital admissions and death from Covid during trials, is currently only used in the US, under an emergency use authorisation.
The jab was authorised in the EU last month but has not started to be rolled out to members states yet, although this is expected in the next few weeks.
The vaccine stands out from the others being used because only one shot is needed, rather than two.
30 million doses have been ordered by the UK Government, but it has yet to be approved for use by the country’s regulator. Nearly five million people have received the vaccine in the US. Responding to reports of its jab being investigated by the EMA, J&J said it was working with regulators to assess the relevant information.
At present, no clear causal relationship has been established between these rare events and the Janssen Covid vaccine.
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I don’t care how many jabs they bring out I’m refusing them all. I feel sorry for those who have been unduly pressurised by this Junta’s decrees. Time the people found a spine and pushed back.
Or you could just learn to assess risk properly rather than running on irrational emotion.
The problem with risk analysis is we only know the short term risk of the vaccines.
Short term risk != long term risk
So we know that the probability of someone getting a blood clot from the vaccine and it is small. We know there is a probability that is non-zero that there are longer term effects that haven’t yet been discovered. We know lots of vaccines don’t make it to licensing and lots of things that seem safe short term are dangerous long term.
If I wanted to do a risk analysis I would look at all vaccines created in the last 20 years and see how many failed at what stage of testing and how many failed because of effects seen after 6 months. But I can’t be bothered.
For me personally, I won’t take an emergency licensed vaccine for something that isn’t an emergency.
When you get to your 70s and 80s long term has a different meaning.
Exactly. The age of the patient has a massive impact on both the benefits and risks. My parents both had the vaccines. I’ve no problem with that – its completely reasonable for them and something between them and their GP.
For me or my children the calculations come out very different. The idea of giving emergency licensed vaccines after 6 months of field use to children who are at negligible risk of the virus I find quite disturbing. It is evidence of hysteria.
Even with my short time horizon, I have a problem with suffering the severe ‘ordinary’ side effects that are worryingly common (and, my guess is very under-recorded), when put against the minimal protection evidently provided.
As Steve points out, Lucan, you are a bit short-changed in the analytical ability department. If you think that you can make a sensible risk assessment after such a short time, and when all the circumstantial evidence (the massive political and financial interests in promoting vaccines willy nilly) shouts ‘Caution!’ – then your brain is not functioning on all cylinders.
The science and the ethics both shout loud against this unscientific, distorted rush.
I personally don’t think that the vaccines will lead to an immediate armageddon of associated injury – but who knows? There are several grounds that turn me away from submission to corrupted authority.
As to such short-term, non-’emotional’ evidence that exists : the data from Cambridge published in the Telegraph actually didn’t show the key statistic 0f absolute risk reduction which, even for a ‘vulnerable’ like me, seems to be about 0.3% reduction of the chance of getting into an ICU.
Which is what I have done. I’m a in my early thirties and am fit and healthy. The chances of me dying of Covid are as near as makes no difference zero. Why therefore, would I want to take a novel vaccine whose long term side affects are unknown and also carries many risks of short term symptoms and complications.
Hopefully you can convince your friends too as I’m not having much luck with my middle aged friends and relatives – even a diehard non vaxxing friend (i.e. didn’t get her kids vaccinated) has succumbed because she didn’t think she would be able to work without it. We need many more people to say no thanks to this – the consequences are just too awful to contemplate.
This podcast with Mike Yeadon is well worth 45 mins of your time.
https://uk-podcasts.co.uk/podcast/delingpods-the-james-delingpole-podcast/dr-mike-yeadon
What is the risk from SarsCov2/Covid19 itself? It turns out that in the grand scheme of things, for the absolute vast majority of the population, there is nothing to worry about with this alleged novel virus. The risk is as good as non-existent. The survival rate from infection in the under 70s is 99.97%. This comes from the reporting of the world’s most eminent Data Scientist, Prof Dr John Ioannidis. He is the big cheese in this department with unsurpassed credentials, awards and honours for his work. John P.A. Ioannidis Professor of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research), of Epidemiology and Population Health and by courtesy, of Statistics and of Biomedical Data Science https://profiles.stanford.edu/john-ioannidis Here is one of his papers, confirming the best available data for mortality and Covid19: Global perspective of COVID‐19 epidemiology for a full‐cycle pandemic https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/eci.13423 “Global infection fatality rate is 0.15‐0.20% (0.03‐0.04% in those <70 years)” The risk from Covid is in the ballpark of normal seasonal flu (average IFR of flu is about 0.1%), you could say a strong flu, but nothing so remarkable that anything the government has done can be justified. The risk is certainly nowhere near high enough to start even thinking about coercing… Read more »
Here are a few of many indicators that the risks from the vaccine are very real. There is tonnes more where this lot came from. The links have the full details. Rebuttal letter to European Medicines Agency from Doctors for Covid Ethics, April 1, 2021 “NOTICE For the avoidance of doubt, if your regulatory body does not immediately suspend its “emergency” recommendation of potentially dangerous inadequately tested gene-based “vaccines”, while the matters which we have highlighted to you are properly investigated, we hereby put the European Medicines Agency on notice of being complicit in medical experimentation, in violation of the Nuremberg Code, which thereby constitutes the commission of crimes against humanity.” https://doctors4covidethics.medium.com/rebuttal-letter-to-european-medicines-agency-from-doctors-for-covid-ethics-april-1-2021-7d867f0121e Informed consent disclosure to vaccine trial subjects of risk of COVID-19 vaccines worsening clinical disease “Results of the study: COVID-19 vaccines designed to elicit neutralis- ing antibodies may sensitise vaccine recipients to more severe dis- ease than if they were not vaccinated. Vaccines for SARS, MERS and RSV have never been approved, and the data generated in the devel- opment and testing of these vaccines suggest a serious mechanistic concern: that vaccines designed empirically using the traditional ap- proach (consisting of the unmodified or minimally modified corona- virus… Read more »
Good points well made. Yet again LS puts up an article about blood clots without comment. Then LS makes no leap of logic to talk about the 700 people so far who sadlidied after their jab from all manner of other problems. And these are only the ones reported to the yellow card site. No mentions of the hundreds of thousands who have had serious side effects from the jab. No mention of all the old folk who passed away in care homes after their jab and put down as covid deaths. Never reported on a yellow card. The jab is not our way out of lockdown and never was. Freedom will only come with ZERO restrictions. Why will this be given when kids are walking around outside with masks on? Why would any government give up this absolute power?
They didn’t sadlidie, they coincidentallidied
Irrational emotion? You arrogant prick! I have assessed the risk and I do not fear catching this virus. I have a 99.74% chance of survival so I’ll take my chance with that thank you!
Fat chance of that happening unfortunately.
Hello I have been a lockdown sceptic from day 1, however, something happened yesterday that I feel I must share here. I am of the opinion that the risks of the vaccine outweigh the benefits for me at present. I received a letter for an appt. I asked for it to be delayed. It was agreed that they would contact me by letter in a few weeks with a fresh appt should my situation change. DAYS later my partner recieves a text saying that they or someone close to them has an appt for vaccine next week. I think this weird as other half only just had first jab, I’ve a sneaking suspicion this text is for me. Lo and behold it was. (There is, of course, the matter of confidentiality being breached but that’s another thing again. The vaccine centre has left themselves off the hook by saying that mobile number provided by GP surgery. Why the heck I’d give my partner’s number as MY number I don’t know. That’s something I’ll be looking into.) What I’ve written in brackets is a separate issue, though, the point is that it is my opinion that they are now haranguing people… Read more »
Not far off and heading directly that way
Yep. It’s as if people think it couldn’t happen here.
I recieved a phone call (NHS central, not GP) to remind me and ‘confirm my appointment’ for a jab that I knew nothing about.
I told them why I would not be taking the vaccine and they said they would take me off their list.
This call probably came from a third party telesales company so again breach of confidentiality.
Strikes me that it no different to a firm phoning to tell me I had WON some competition and all I need to do to claim my prize was to attend blah blah blah . . .
As I’ve often said, just on the basis of circumstantial evidence, why would you take an under-tested vaccine on the recommendation of a cabal that has consistently lied (and no, I don’t just mean ‘have exaggerated’) about this (so-called) ‘pandemic’)?
I wouldn’t put it past the current regime. It is frightening how quickly the U.K. has transformed from been a relatively free country to a totalitarian state.
Beginnings of vaccinophobia ?
This from the Guardian.
Are these people ‘swamping’ A&E genuinely suffering from vaccine side effects or are they panicking over negative press results.
Either way it’s bad news for touters of vaccines.
But the common side effects are frequently not ‘mild’ at all – they are induced fevers that can last several days.
This is just the start of it. Is it any wonder?
The government has spent the last year terrifying people over a virus that the vast, vast majority of them will survive.
Covid has been given priority over everything. As a sceptic who got really angry about those supposedly sweet images of grandchildren seeing grandparents through windows, to say this annoys me is an understatement.
Now even if vaccines do only harm a very small percentage of those who have them people are not going to pay attention as they’re totally risk averse.
Logically, if something is bad then the thing that stops it should be welcomed but people are not logical and everything covid related is now viewed with fear.
As an aside, I feel for the medical professional who went on channel 4 news expressing the view that even though a close relative died as a result of complications of the vaccine she hoped it wouldn’t put people off. She meant well but the damage is done.
And it’s bad news for LS if the gov continue the narrative of ‘save the NHS’ who will now be swamped with the scared vaxxed. And then we’ll have to lockdown again!
Meanwhile – back in the propaganda playground, we are still suffering witless disruption of normal broadcasting service for the second day running because Phil the Greek has fallen off his perch at the ripe old age of 99!
FFS. Hardly tragic or unexpected – but all part of the same propaganda initiative to play on unthinking sentimentality about normal death.
Interesting that the sudden significant deterioration in his health started not long after he had his Covid vaccine. Might just be a coincidence of course but if he had had The Covid virus in Jan no doubt the media would have played heavily on this and his death more than likely recorded as a Covid death.
I am pretty sure that I saw that the Pfizer vaccine was causing as many deaths as the AZ one according to the US VAERS system. And it isnt just deaths but permanent disabilities as well.
Now JJ is also in the spotlight.
You can bet your bottom dollar that the reported incidents are likely to be a fraction of the actual total. Think of it like the exaggeration of COVID deaths in reverse.
Clearly these vaccines are dangerous and need to be stopped. Who could possibly think that the mass vaccination of an entire population with experimental untested vaccines was a good idea? Well I suppose there are such people who thought it was a good idea, but they werent hoping for what you and I would be, i.e. a benign outcome.
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The J&J vaccine is the second non-mRNA vaccine found to have blod clots as a side-effect – looks like it’s the more experimental mRNA vaccines alround for the under 30s then…