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DESPITE receiving nearly 50,000 reports of potentially fatal cardiac adverse events following the rollout of AstraZeneca’s covid vaccine, the UK’s medicines regulator continued to assure the public that the vaccine was safe and effective.
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The MHRA received 48,472 cardiac event reports in 2021 alone but made no attempt to suspend the jab, denying a causal link. The data from a FOI request shows that almost half the reports were received in the first three months after the rollout.
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By late March 2021, 23,914 cardiovascular events had already been reported in the 18 years-plus age group. (MHRA data also shows 11,600 children received first doses plus 10,000 second doses resulting in 248 Yellow Cards giving a reporting rate of 1-in-47.)
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MHRA data shows that in addition to heart issues they received 6,175 reports of blood-clotting events during the same period. The number of heart-related reports was roughly 685 per cent higher than the number of blood-clot reports received by the MHRA.
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Vaxzevria became known as the ‘clot shot’ as it caused VITT. Potentially fatal blood clots could form in the brain, abdomen, lungs or large veins, 5-30 days after the first vaccination. By the end of 2021, 1,182 related fatalities had been reported to the Yellow Card Scheme.
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Sarah Gilbert, Professor of Vaccinology at Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Medicine, initiated the project and led the development team. Under her leadership, the vaccine progressed rapidly into human clinical trials and global deployment, becoming one of the first covid...
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...vaccines to be widely used in more than 180 countries, although it was never approved in the United States. Gilbert received a damehood in 2021 for her role in the vaccine’s design and could have made around £20 million from the venture.
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