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Is there some massive action against AZ vaccine. Looking on any provided data it seems that those blood clots cases are below population averages, but everyday

Is there some massive action against AZ vaccine. Looking on any provided data it seems that those blood clots cases are below population averages, but everyday I read about someone killed by AZ vaccine. I feel lost, frankly speaking. AZ vaccine is way cheaper than Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, could it be some PR action from those producers whose business is hurt by AZ. I don't want to sound as some proponent of conspiracy theories, but is there any reliable source that confirms that there is something wrong with the AZ vaccine. For now it looks like some governments got scared by people panicking on Twitter and started panicking too...

SiempreViernes 6y ago
This is the first big vaccine from AZ, so part of it is that they are just bad at the various practical bits of the process compared to the more experienced multinationals. So for example, problems with quality control made for a unnecessarily challenging analysis of trial data. Slowness in reporting details when possible complications showed up in during the trials made the US authorities really pissy and they've still not granted it permission for emergency use. And then there is their awful communications around the production issues where they spent like a month giving progressively worse and worse news to their customers about how much vaccine would actually show up. All those very real problems make for good padding to any article about any new issue about the AZ vaccine. So because it is simply easy news to write it will get written, and this helps explain why there are so many.
- sudosysgen 6y ago
  Maybe it would have been better after all if not just AstraZeneca were able to manufacture the vaccine, as was originally planned.