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British biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has reassured on the safety of its Covid-19 vaccine, saying its claim was based on clear scientific evidence.
“Safety is of paramount importance and the company is continually monitoring the safety of its vaccine,” the company said in a statement after cases of vaccinated people dying of thromboembolism a few days after injection.
Following recent concern raised around thrombotic events, AstraZeneca said a careful review of all available safety data of more than 17 million people vaccinated in the European Union and UK with Covid-19 vaccine “showed no evidence of an increased risk of pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis [DVT] or thrombocytopenia, in any defined age group, gender, batch or in any particular country”.
So far across the EU and UK, there have been 15 events of DVT and 22 events of pulmonary embolism reported among those given the vaccine, based on the number of cases the company has received as of March 8. This is much lower than would be expected to occur naturally in a general population of this size and is similar across other licensed Covid-19 vaccines, the company said.
The monthly safety report will be made public on the European Medicines Agency website the following week, in line with exceptional transparency measures for Covid-19.
“Furthermore, in clinical trials, even though the number of thrombotic events was small, these were lower in the vaccinated group. There has also been no evidence of increased bleeding in over 60,000 participants enrolled,” the company said.
Ann Taylor, chief medical officer, said: “Around 17 million people in the EU and UK have now received our vaccine, and the number of cases of blood clots reported in this group is lower than the hundreds of cases that would be expected among the general population.
“The nature of the pandemic has led to increased attention in individual cases and we are going beyond the standard practices for safety monitoring of licensed medicines in reporting vaccine events, to ensure public safety.
“In terms of quality, there are also no confirmed issues related to any batch of our vaccine used across Europe, or the rest of the world. “Additional testing has, and is, being conducted by ourselves and independently by European health authorities and none of these re-tests have shown cause for concern.
“During the production of the vaccine, more than 60 quality tests are conducted by AstraZeneca, its partners and by more than 20 independent testing laboratories. All tests need to meet stringent criteria for quality control and this data is submitted to regulators within each country or region for independent review before any batch can be released to countries,” Taylor said.
The company said it was keeping this issue under close review but available evidence does not confirm that the vaccine is the cause. To overcome the pandemic, it is important that people get vaccinated when invited to do so.
Covid-19 vaccine AstraZeneca was co-invented by the University of Oxford and its spin-out company, Vaccitech.
It uses a replication-deficient chimpanzee viral vector based on a weakened version of a common cold virus (adenovirus) that causes infections in chimpanzees and contains the genetic material of the Sars-CoV-2 virus spike protein. After vaccination, the surface spike protein is produced, priming the immune system to attack the Sars-CoV-2 virus if it later infects the body.
The vaccine has been granted a conditional marketing authorisation or emergency use in more than 70 countries across six continents, and with the recent Emergency Use Listing granted by the World Health Organization accelerates the pathway to access in up to 142 countries through the Covax Facility.
A redheaded woman lies pinned to the ground. She seems to be shouting. Two uniformed police officers are holding her hands behind her back to handcuff her.
The woman was among thousands who attended a vigil Saturday in London’s Clapham Common for Sarah Everard, the 33-year-old marketing executive whose kidnap and killing has stunned the nation.
A police officer has been charged in her death.
Police urged people to stay away from the planned vigil with England still in lockdown. Organizers canceled the event after talks with police about its legality and safety broke down. But people went anyway.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, who holds the most powerful policing position in Britain, said Sunday she was not considering stepping down.
“We’re still in a pandemic, unlawful gatherings are unlawful gatherings, officers have to take action if people are putting themselves massively at risk,” she told reporters.
But many continued to question the way the police handled the event, as photos of male officers pinning a woman to the ground – at a vigil for a woman allegedly slain by a police officer – went viral.
Home Office minister Victoria Atkins was quizzed about the sensational images on Sunday morning talk shows.
“You’ll be very familiar with the picture that has been shown absolutely everywhere. What did you think when you saw it?” said the BBC’s Andrew Marr.
“I found it very upsetting, of course,” Atkins said.
Atkins told Sky’s Sophie Ridge show that the photograph was “something that the police will have to explain in their report to the Home Secretary.”
The police on Sunday defended their handling of the memorial.
“We absolutely did not want to be in a position where enforcement action was necessary,” assistant police commissioner Helen Ball said. “But we were placed in this position because of the overriding need to protect people’s safety.”
“Hundreds of people were packed tightly together, posing a very real risk of easily transmitting covid-19,” she said. She said “a small minority of people began chanting at officers, pushing and throwing items.”
Among the thousands who attended the vigil peacefully – Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, left flowers – a Washington Post reporter saw a small group of people hurling insults and objects at the police. One person smashed the rear view window of a police van. Many shouted “arrest your own” and “shame on you.”
As scenes of tussles from the vigil circulated online,politicians from across the political spectrum criticized the Metropolitan Police’s handling of the situation.
Home Secretary Priti Patel called the scenes at the vigil “upsetting” and said she had requested a full police report on the day’s developments. London Mayor Sadiq Khan said the police chiefs had failed to provide him with a satisfactory explanation of events and called for an independent investigation.
Police said four people were arrested for “public order offences and for breaches of the Health Protection Regulations.”
Liberal Democrat party leader Ed Davey was among those who called on the police commissioner to resign. Others said what’s needed is a more serious look at how to handle demonstrations during a pandemic.
Jess Phillips, the opposition Labour Party’s point person on domestic violence, said there were “many missed opportunities throughout the day for police to work with organizers to create a completely safe vigil so that people could go and have a moment of sorrow and a moment of resistance.”
Everard’s death has prompted a national outpouring of grief and anger. She was last seen at at 9:30 p.m. on March 3, walking home from a friend’s house in south London. Her body was later found in woods in Kent.
Wayne Couzens, 48, has been charged with kidnap and murder in her death. The Metropolitan Police say he joined the force in 2018; for the past year, his main job was patrolling diplomatic premises, mainly embassies. He previously held posts at Downing Street and the Palace of Westminster.
Women have shared stories online about their experiences feeling scared when walking alone at night, and are asking why more isn’t being done to tackle violence against women.
The redheaded woman in the photo, Patsy Stevenson, said she attended the vigil to support women who “cannot walk down the streets themselves because of the fear of men.”
She called the police actions “disgraceful.”
“Before then, it was just a peaceful protest,” she told the left-wing website Counterfire. “I was arrested by police for standing there. I wasn’t doing anything. They threw me to the floor. They have pictures of me on the floor being arrested. And I’m 5 foot 2 and I weigh nothing.”
Despite the cancellation, she said, people were going to attend, “because people were angry.”