Tag Archive: AstraZeneca
Majority of Covid Hospital Admissions Over Winter Were Vaccinated, PHE Study Shows
Two new vaccines studies from PHE bring encouraging news on protection against hospitalisation and death. But they leave me with more questions than answers.
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Vaccine Booking System Hasn’t Allowed Pregnant Women to Book the Specific Vaccines Recommended to Them by the JCVI and the NHS
The NHS’s vaccine booking site hasn't just failed to keep people’s vaccine status private but has also failed to allow pregnant women to book the vaccines they have been advised – by the NHS – to receive.
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Under-40s to be Offered Alternative to AstraZeneca Jab
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has issued new guidance today saying that adults aged 30 to 39 without underlying health conditions should be offered an alternative to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
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Most Of the AstraZeneca Vaccines Ordered By the Netherlands Will Go Unused
So many other Covid vaccines will be available in the Netherlands that most of the 11 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine ordered by the Dutch Government will go unused, according to a Dutch health official.
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E.U. Orders 1.8 Billion Doses of Pfizer’s Covid Vaccine
The E.U. will soon seal its departure from the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine by signing off on the world's biggest vaccine deal yet, buying up to 1.8 billion doses of the Pfizer vaccine to last up until 2023.
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12 Year-Olds to Be Given Covid Vaccines from September
12 year-olds will be given Covid vaccines when they return to school after summer, according to reports. Oxford University’s child vaccine study is also testing the AstraZeneca jab on children as young as six.
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E.U. Will Not Take up Option to Buy 100 Million Extra Covid Vaccines from AstraZeneca
The European Commission will not take up an option to buy 100 million additional doses of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, and is preparing legal proceedings against the drugmaker over the "fulfillment of deliveries".
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NHS England Tells GPs Not to Give Pregnant Women AstraZeneca Covid Vaccine
GPs at sites that are only administering the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine have been told to cancel all appointments for pregnant women after the JCVI admitted that “more research is needed” on the vaccine.
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‘First Do No Harm’ Means Not Giving the Covid Vaccine to Young People
Today we're publishing an original piece by Dr Alan Mordue, a retired public health consultant, about the risk to young people of being vaccinated against COVID-19. He thinks healthy people under 50 shouldn't have the jab.
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Britain’s Regulator Missed Early Blood Clot Cases Linked to AstraZeneca Vaccine
The first cases of blood clotting linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine occurred in January and February but the algorithms used by Britain’s medicines regulator did not pick them up, according to a new investigation.
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