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AstraZeneca To Withdraw COVID Vaccine Globally as Demand Dips (reuters.com) 83

AstraZeneca said on Tuesday it had initiated the worldwide withdrawal of its COVID-19 vaccine due to a "surplus of available updated vaccines" since the pandemic. From a report: The company also said it would proceed to withdraw the vaccine Vaxzevria's marketing authorizations within Europe. "As multiple, variant COVID-19 vaccines have since been developed there is a surplus of available updated vaccines," the company said, adding that this had led to a decline in demand for Vaxzevria, which is no longer being manufactured or supplied. According to media reports, the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker has previously admitted in court documents that the vaccine causes side-effects such as blood clots and low blood platelet counts.

AstraZeneca To Withdraw COVID Vaccine Globally as Demand Dips

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  • The Gravy Train has stopped...time to get off.
    • by raburton ( 1281780 ) on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @11:01AM (#64456766) Homepage

      The Gravy Train has stopped...time to get off.

      Except that this was the cheapest covid vaccine, and for the first year+ was sold at cost.

      • A point that would have otherwise been lost to me.

        In Canada we had a choice of whichever vaccine we wanted, subject to the information they had. For example some vaccines weren't recommended to children, and therefore weren't offered to Children. But regardless of choice, there was no cost.

        But AstraZeneca stands out, because some time after they started offering it, they stopped offering it due to side effects. They also recommended that people who did take it get another vendor's, like Pfizer as a secon

      • by Anonymous Coward

        "yes it cost us X amount, so were selling it at X"

        hahahaha sweet summer child

  • by rsilvergun ( 571051 ) on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @12:36PM (#64457073)
    They're digging up tons of minor side effects reports and claiming the vaccine was pulled because of that, and not the real reason, which is that they can't compete with Moderna & Pfizer. Even some "journalist" outlets have got in on the act. I saw the Telegraph (a UK tabloid that occasionally dabbles in real journalism, sort of like Fox News in the early 2000s) pushing that nonsense.
  • by rossdee ( 243626 )

    In AZ can you get vaccinated against Kari Lake and Krysten Sinema?

  • by nehumanuscrede ( 624750 ) on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @03:39PM (#64457637)

    Via: https://www.independent.co.uk/... [independent.co.uk]

    AstraZeneca recently admitted that its vaccine, initially called Covishield, could cause very rare side effects like blood clots and low blood platelet counts, The Telegraph reported.

    The admission came after the company was slapped with a class action lawsuit in the UK, which claimed that the vaccine had caused deaths and severe injuries and sought damages up to £100m for about 50 victims.

    Some studies conducted during the pandemic found the vaccine was 60 to 80 per cent effective in protecting against the novel coronavirus.

    But subsequent research found that it caused some people to develop potentially fatal blood clots.

    AstraZeneca’s admission that the vaccine could potentially prove lethal ran counter to its insistence in 2023 that it would “not accept that TTS is caused by the vaccine at a generic level”.

    In April 2021, the World Health Organisation also confirmed that the vaccine could have fatal side effects. “A very rare adverse event called thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, involving unusual and severe blood clotting events associated with low platelet counts, has been reported after vaccination with this vaccine.”

    • by mjwx ( 966435 )

      Via: https://www.independent.co.uk/... [independent.co.uk]

      AstraZeneca recently admitted that its vaccine, initially called Covishield, could cause very rare side effects like blood clots and low blood platelet counts, The Telegraph reported.

      Credibility gone to zero right there... The Telegraph, that bastion of journalistic integrity and even they couldn't spin it as "will". I notice a lot of "could" in your post, as if anyone was unwilling to commit to a statement. I could have a date have a billion dollars by tonight. I mean it really could happen. Could.

  • The mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna blew AZ out of the water. It was never updated for any of the Covid variants, and because of this has no effect on any of the strains circulating now.

  • Not a huge loss considering it's largely obsolete. Updated mRNA vaccines also have their advantages, except for the sore arm for a week.

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