They ask not to be alarmed by the AstraZeneca vaccine

The pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca admitted that its vaccine against COVID-19 can cause thrombosis and other side effects, however, the doctor specializing in Pediatrics, Hugo Alberto Tovar, asked the population not to be alarmed, since said biological has an impact on health of 0.004 %. That is, in 4 cases for every million doses applied, an adverse reaction could occur, according to world health authorities.

“These are isolated cases, extremely rare, that obviously do require assessment to know what type of population is most at risk of presenting adverse effects, so that these people can be more careful when administering a vaccine.

Here we obviously have to understand that the vaccines that were administered during the COVID pandemic, none had been tested other than in clinical trials, because the studies began at the same time the pandemic began,” he explained.

He added that: “The issue of the AstraZeneca vaccine is an issue that has been evolving for three years, it is an issue that since the vaccine began to be administered, there have been some cases of deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary thrombosis, vein thrombosis cava, which were isolated.

And practically, in terms of the percentage or the casuistry that occurred for the presentation of eventual cases of thrombosis, it was not very different from what was usually presented, without the vaccine, so it really was not a number that would draw a lot of balance to not justify applying the vaccine.

EFFECTIVENESS

The pediatrician recalled that at the time, there was authorization for emergency use of the AstraZeneca vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 and that in the clinical trials that were carried out in association with the University of Oxford, it was shown that the biological had a profile adequate safety and efficacy, around 73%, in addition to 100% effectiveness in severe cases.

“So practically the people who administered the two Oxford AstraZeneca COVID vaccines reduced the risk of acquiring severe COVID by 100 percent, of course, adverse effects of any vaccine are always present, always.

The adverse effects are fully described and it is always expected that there will be a number of adverse effects that are attributable to the vaccine, obviously other adverse effects may be attributable to the host, to whom he receives the vaccine, due to comorbidities such as hypertension, diabetes, arthritis, to very specific characteristics to respond to this type of vaccines,” he explained.

‘THEY MET REQUIREMENTS’

The doctor maintained that the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines met all the requirements and recalled that the adverse effects that were identified in 2021 were in people from Denmark. “There were 30 cases (of blood clots) that triggered this entire investigation and they found that even though these 30 cases occurred, the rest of the population, which was the majority of health personnel, did not justify not administering the vaccines, because The risk-benefit balance attributed to the fact that there were many more people who were protected than those who had any side effects.

It is not a specific risk for AstraZeneca, many other vaccines have actually presented it and have it described in their notification notes,” he mentioned.

Finally, he said that the AstraZeneca vaccine has not been used in Mexico for some time now, not because it was bad but because it no longer adapted to the new variants of SARS-CoV-2.