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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
Chaos and ineptitude. The hall mark of the EU.
While they agonise over a few blood clot cases no larger than the normal un-jabbed population their unprotected citizens are dying while AZ vaccine lies unused in freezers.
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It's a serious political failure amongst some of the most influential national leaders in the EU, worst of all Macron himself in France. They were so busy traducing the AstraZeneca vaccine in retaliation for being told they couldn't have as much of it as they wanted, they have caused public scepticism and arguably now enabled regulatory over-caution in the face of 'evidence' that might - just might - justify briefly pausing use of a medicine in normal times, in the absence of a massive, readily available data set to compare their domestic experience with.
Of course in the case of the AstraZeneca vaccine there is data from something like 12 million people and counting that says there's no evidence of a causal link with blood clots, plus a deliberate study of its safety in Finland that likewise determines it is as safe as the UK's MHRA, the EMA and WHO have said all along. The medicines regulators all over Europe are fiddling while Rome burns, and later this year they'll all be locked down again while we're increasingly getting back to normal. Their desire for self-flagellation is bizarre.