Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has announced it’s removing its Covid-19 vaccine worldwide. FactCheck takes a look.
The pharmaceutical company said: “As multiple, variant Covid-19 vaccines have since been developed there is a surplus of available updated vaccines.” Basically, other vaccines are more effective against the versions of Covid that are most common now – and demand for Covid jabs overall has fallen.
Some countries have already stopped supplying the vaccine, including Australia, where it has not been available for use since March 2023.As well as common side effects such as nausea and joint painBlood clots can reduce normal blood flow in an affected blood vessel, and thrombocytopenia is a condition where there aren’t enough platelets in the blood.
Like almost any medical intervention, vaccines carry the risk of side effects. The question for scientists and clinicians is whether the benefits of the treatment outweigh the risks.
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