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Healthy mother dies of blood clots after AstraZeneca vaccine dose

September 17, 2021 -

Tailor initially gets her first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine in March, and later falls ill on April 8. She first complains of a headache before experiencing slurred speech and a facial droop. These prompt her relatives to rush her to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London.

Doctors at the hospital soon diagnose Alpa with vaccine-induced thrombocytopenia and thrombosis as a consequence of getting the vaccine. Thrombocytopenia involves patients ...

9 more Australians report blood clots after receiving AstraZeneca vaccine

June 07, 2021 -

New South Wales (NSW) recorded two cases -- a 60-year-old woman and an 82-year-old woman. Two cases also came from Western Australia – a 72-year-old man and a 51-year-old woman. Queensland reported a 63-year-old man as the latest victim of the adverse reaction, while the state of Victoria confirmed that a 73-year-old woman there developed blood clots.

Three cases from the week prior completed the nine cases of blood clots the TGA confirmed. An 85-year-old woman from NSW ...

AstraZeneca vaccine probed over death of BBC presenter Lisa Shaw

June 04, 2021 -

Newcastle's senior coroner Karen Dilks issued the interim fact-of-death certificate, which confirms that an investigation into Shaw's death will be held and that the "complication of AstraZeneca COVID-19 virus vaccination" is being considered as a possible cause.Shaw suffered blood clots days after getting first dose of AstraZeneca

Shaw's family said the 44-year-old was treated for blood clots days after receiving the first dose of AstraZeneca. She died on May 21. The BBC ...

Queensland pulls AstraZeneca vaccine following more cases of blood clots

May 27, 2021 -

The vaccine made by the British drug manufacturer is still administered in the state by doctors to people above 50 years old. However, the state's government said that it will not use the AstraZeneca vaccine in mass vaccination centers for inoculating Australians. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said such a mass vaccination hub similar to those in New South Wales and Victoria is being planned toward the end of 2021.

"Queensland is a big state, [and] it ...

Aussie scientists cast doubt on low-efficacy AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine

February 02, 2021 -

The opposition Labor Party and some immunologists have called on the Australian government to procure additional doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines. Clinical trials for these two vaccines have shown that they have higher efficacy rates than the one produced by AstraZeneca.

"Until we get more data [showing] that AstraZeneca is as good as the others, the scientific and medical risk that you take is that you won't get herd immunity," said Australian Medical ...

Woman developed PSYCHOSIS after getting injected with AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

September 20, 2024 -

The case study published January 2022 in Schizophrenia Research touched on an 18-year-old female student who was sent to the hospital for "irrelevant talk and bizarre behavior." According to the paper, she had no history of physical illness or substance use. In fact, she had been perfectly healthy both physically and mentally before getting injected.

"While there have been numerous pieces of medical literature on the neurological side effects of the COVID-19 vaccinations, ...

Study: Mixing Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccine doses CAUSES MORE side effects

October 07, 2021 -

The researchers found that people who received one vaccine candidate first followed by the other candidate had a higher chance of experiencing undesirable side effects than those who received two doses of the same vaccine. Based on their findings, 37 percent of volunteers who received an AstraZeneca dose followed by a Pfizer dose experienced chills. Meanwhile, 41 percent of volunteers who got a Pfizer dose first and an AstraZeneca dose afterward developed a fever.

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Australian nurse hospitalized with three blood clots after receiving AstraZeneca vaccine

May 28, 2021 -

The nurse, Ellie Peacock, was hospitalized after three blood clots were discovered on her right lung just three weeks after she received the first dose of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine. (Related: Australian woman dies from blood clots days after getting AstraZeneca vaccine.)

Peacock worked in a team that is regularly exposed to potential coronavirus-positive patients, which made her a priority for vaccination. She was given her first dose on March 31, a week ...

Australian woman dies from blood clots days after getting AstraZeneca vaccine

May 10, 2021 -

This was announced by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) on Friday, April 16, after it met to investigate the link between the vaccine and the patient's death. According to the TGA, the person who died was Genene Norris, a 48-year-old woman from the Central Coast region of the state of New South Wales.

Norris received her dose of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine on April 9. She was rushed to the hospital the following day after developing blood clots. She was ...

AstraZeneca may have provided “outdated” coronavirus vaccine data, safety board claims

March 25, 2021 -

The pharmaceuticals firm recently conducted a late-stage trial in the United States involving more than 32,000 volunteers. Efficacy data from the trial showed that the vaccine is 79 percent effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 and 100 percent effective at preventing severe illness and hospitalization, the firm announced on Monday, March 22.

Later that day, the DSMB notified the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), the Biomedical Advanced ...

Researchers confirm antibodies from the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine cause blood clots

March 24, 2021 -

Researchers at northern Germany's Greifswald University Hospital said on March 19 that they discovered how the AstraZeneca jab could cause blood clots and brain thrombosis. The team, led by Andreas Greinacher, said in a statement that the British drug manufacturer's vaccine may prompt over-activation of blood platelets or thrombocytes in some cases. Excessive thrombocyte activity can lead to the formation of clots in blood vessels, blocking regular blood flow.Antibodies ...

New research points to link between AstraZeneca vaccine and blood clots

March 23, 2021 -

(Article by Megan Redshaw republished from ChildrensHealthDefense.org)

The German team, led by professor Andreas Greinacher, said in a statement that AstraZeneca's vaccine may, in some cases, prompt overactivation of platelets in the blood, which can lead to potentially deadly clots. As NPR reported, Greinacher said it's similar to what happens with a condition called heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.

Greinacher and his team analyzed 13 cases of cerebral blood clots ...