AstraZeneca Admits for First Time its Covid Vaccine Can Cause Deadly Side Effect, Paving Way for Payouts of Up to £20m
AstraZeneca has admitted in court for the first time that its Covid jab can cause a deadly blood clotting side effect. The Mail has more.
The exceedingly rare [sic] reaction is at the heart of a multi million-pound class action by dozens of families who allege they, or their loved ones, were maimed or killed by the pharmaceutical titan’s “defective” vaccine.
Lawyers representing the claimants believe some of the cases could be worth up to £20m in compensation.
Cambridge-based AstraZeneca, which is contesting the claims, acknowledged in a legal document submitted to the High Court in February that its vaccine “can, in very rare cases, cause TTS”.
TTS is short for thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome – a medical condition where a person suffers blood clots along with a low platelet count. Platelets typically help the blood to clot.
The complication – listed as a potential side effect of the jab – has previously been called vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT).
AstraZeneca’s admission could lead to pay-outs on a case-by-case basis.
Although accepted as a potential side effect for two years, it marks the first time the company has admitted in court that its jab can cause the condition, the Telegraph reports.
Taxpayers will foot the bill of any potential settlement because of an indemnity deal AstraZeneca struck with the Government in the darkest days of Covid to get the jabs produced as quickly as possible while the country was paralysed by lockdowns.
It comes just days after the firm reported a revenue exceeding £10 billion in the first quarter of 2024, a rise of 19%. Company officials stated it had enjoyed a ‘very strong start’ to the year.
Worth reading in full.
By October 2021, the MHRA had received 424 reports of suspected VITT, of which 72 were fatal, following 24 million AstraZeneca vaccinations. This is a rate of one reported incident every 56,000 and one reported fatality every 333,000 (i.e., three per million). This is just one side effect, of course.
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I feel really sorry for anybody duped into taking this thing and then suffering from the ‘very rare’ side effects but it’s truly sick-making that the taxpayer will be the one paying the compensation.
Yes it’s putting the boot in ! Barstewards !!!
Capitalise the profits ….. socialise the costs (as usual) from the Not-a- Conservative-Government.
In contrast to disgruntled246 I have zero sympathy with those who took these obscenities in all their forms. Which part of “Brand new drug, Emergency Only” did they not understand? Hell, they didn’t even have to read all the details, as many of us did, they only had to listen to the basics. Stupidity is not an excuse for reducing your life span.
The thing that does pee me off is that I have to pay for their f###g stupidity!
Incidentally, all of my family and kids took these things. They thought my wife and I were mad. Hard to make up really. In answer to the obvious question: no, I have no sympathy for what is going to happen to my kids and family, they were told, they chose stupidity.
Sadly, most people I have spoke to about it still believe the vaccine was essential to staying alive.
I’ve found the same or they won’t discuss it at all. My sister has a rare form of cancer and took it. She was in her last month of remission; they found it had come back. Quelle surprise. She still maintains I’m wrong.
I see where you are coming from, I really do, but even people who are quite intelligent fell for it. People who are quite intelligent have fallen for a lot of crap in the past as well. I was probably saved by a high degree of contrarianism ie the more you tell me to do something, the less likely I am to do it.
Yup when I heard they might coerce people into taking the jab, that was enough for me to say I’m not taking that!
That was my point of no return too. Shortly prior to that, the bribes started – how people weren’t even slightly suspicious at that point…
Some people valued a free doughnut or hotdog was worth more than being cautious about the implications of being jabbed with a dubious concoction.
Yes, being a member of the Awkward Squad can serve you very well 🙂
Don’t forget the ITV Dr Hilary. When there was a mess leaflet campaign to make people aware of the Yellow Card adverse reactions, he screwed it up and threw it away on air, said ignore it!
Methinks a bit harsh on your kids and family. However, understandable.
Living in Thailand I wasn’t aware of the extent of the convid propaganda until I returned to the Uk in 2021 and I was horrified when I spoke to some friends who succumberd to it. Also those who believe in the climate crap.
I remember a poignant comment “why didn’t the Amish get covid? – Because they don’t have tv’s”. Sez it all really.
“exceedingly rare”. That sums up where the Daily Mail is today.
There is an awful lot of arse-covering going on in the MSM, making sure they say how ‘rare’ it is. Of course if you’re one of the poor sods that has been affected by it, then the failure rate is 100%.
I wonder if that’s why it stopped being available… after all, there was never any government announcement about it, but suddenly all the “Britain the winner in vaccine research” just stopped.
Kind of like asking your doctor for thalidomide back in the day and finding it’s got permanent supply problems.
What about it, HMG – do we ever get a health warning, or not?
From memory various Scandinavian doctors from the outset were on the look out for cases of myocarditis, so I think the defects of this product were known or at least suspected
Listened to and read a lot of personal stories regarding the AZ shot their stories are horrific. Listened to Adam Rowlands story today on the Doc Malik podcast (worth supporting) it’s heart breaking. Arise Dame Gilbert for your services to humanity.
Whilst this is very welcome, Never forget –
The modified RNA jabs are far more dangerous.
Don’t let AZ be thrown under the bus in order to divert attention from this essential fact.
And, in parts of the UK the NHS still advocates the jab for babies >6months old and for pregnant women.
Payouts for AZ will be miniscule compared to the butcher’s bill for the mRNA.
They have been still offering Boosters too.
There are 2 adverts for the clot shot in our local paper this week!
My mother in law had number 8 or 9 just a couple of weeks ago.
My son-in-law law who would have lost his job if not injected (required for travel) and also a good friend in my personal networks both experienced exactly the same heart damage after their second AZ dose. Both now on the same drugs for life as a consequence.
Two people close to me……. clearly exceedingly rare!
We were told it was safe – it’s now official that it isn’t. Is there risk?…..answer ‘yes’. Safe is an absolute term.
I would be nice to see a reprise of the Johnson, Vallance, Whitty Goon Show …… admitting that the jab they declared was “safe and effective” is anything but.
Funnily enough, they’ve all gone to ground.
‘Next slide please’. A montage of photos of the dead and life-changeingly injured.
“The complication – listed as a potential side effect of the jab – has previously been called vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT).”
It wasn’t listed as a potential side effect when the jabs were pushed onto people, since the rushed and inadequate “testing process” hadn’t identified it.
So NO-ONE gave Informed Consent.
ALL THE SCIENTISTS WHO KNEW & SAID SO, WERE CENSORED