What’s going on?
Millions of AZ vaccine now laying in wharehouses while people
go unvaccinated?
Are politics intruding in medical matters. ??
Donkeyman!Well, I heard that the blood clotting was an issue…I must admit, if I was offered the AZ vaccine, I would refuse it, based on what I have read.
Yes, but only 40 cases in millions of jabs, and no problems in UK ??
Maybe EU don’t do a medical history questionnaire BEFORE giving
the jab PK, unlike the NHS ???
Donkeyman!
This is true, of course. There could be many underlying reasons for ill health after the jab has been done. And what medical history questionnaire are you talking about? I haven’t had my jab yet, but Mr P has and he wasn’t asked anything…but maybe they already know your medical background?
We have both had the AZ jab, with no side effects whatever. There was a brief medical history check before it was administered but, of course, it was done at our own GP surgery and they have all our medical records to hand.
Ahh, our GP practice isn’t doing that unless you are over 75. Otherwise you need to go to the local community centre and have it done by a nurse - who generally is not affiliated with the practice. Well…she wasn’t from our place anyway. Everywhere is different…I would feel reassured by a questionnaire, if I’m honest…rather than just a “next please” and jabbed.
Yes, I get that Pixie. It would feel a bit like just being processed in a factory, with no reference to personal health records.
I get my second Astra Zeneca vaccine in 12 days time. No qualms none whatsoever. If the EU block it’s use all the more supplies for UK citizens.
Then I would have to question what you are reading because it isn’t difficult to understand.
‘“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,” said Ann Taylor, AstraZeneca’s chief medical officer.’
https://nypost.com/2021/03/15/astraz...ood-clot-risk/
When the WHO agrees and not being vaccinated puts you at a very real risk of death from Covid-19, refusal seems counter-productive because statistically you are far more likely to die of Covid-19.
Good post Zaphod. We need to keep a perspective.
Nothing whatever to do with the EU trying to foster mistrust for the British/Swiss product in the UK and the countries of the EU because of their absolutely abysmal response to the pandemic of course.
Oh, Zaphod…I’m getting vaccinated alright. I can’t wait…but I would rather have the pfizer. Its more effective after the first dose too.
But what’s going on in the EU then??
There is obviously some difference or they wouldn’t be suspending
it ,would they??
Donkeyman!
I assume that is tongue in cheek Juddy ??
Donkeyman!
Exactly Scot!!
Donkeyman!
Exactly Scot 
any excuse by the EU to nit pick and it will cost lives from C19 :roll:
I am eagerly awaiting my second dose of AZ vaccine with no worries at all.
A few years ago my son a fit young man in his 30’s had a DVT and pulmonary embolism that could have killed him.
It is thought to have been caused by siting too long at work then taking a holiday flight.
Every year some people get thrombosis so a proportion of those millions of people being vaccinated will get thrombosis regardless of any vaccination.
According to the statistician on the radio at lunch time, fewer people who have been vaccinate have had thrombosis that would be expected in the normal population.
Certainly not.
The long term effects of the vaccines are not yet known. How could they be? It hasn’t been administered for all that long.
The blood clotting might just be the start. For a bloke who has had two heart attacks, probably caused by blood clotting in an artery, the last thing I need is something that induces blood clotting…
The media, the WHO and the government want everyone to have the vaccine, there is no way they would allow anyone to cast doubt on it. I’m not saying that the vaccines haven’t got covid on the run, but at what cost?
Further vaccines for new strains of covid will be required next year, perhaps even in the autumn. Have the accumulative effects been considered? There must be a very good reason why several countries have suspended the use of the AZ vaccine, the evidence continues to grow…
Same here, AZ & our own surgeries know our medical history.
You can bet your last penny they are looking after themselves and having a jab whatever it is or whoever manufactures it.
Career politicians clueless.