# AstraZeneca approval in the US

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
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**Created:** [March 15, 2021, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astrazeneca-approval-in-the-us/937911 "2021-03-15T04:30:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/astrazeneca-approval-in-the-us/937911/248 "2021-04-02T19:12:50Z")

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Hmm. I think the technical term for this is “Oh Shit”:

> **[Covid: 30 blood clot cases found in AstraZeneca recipients in the UK](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56616119)**
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> The cases identified by the medicines regulator were out of more than 18 million doses given.

From the article:

> **The UK’s medicines watchdog says it has found 30 cases of rare blood clots in people who have had the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine.**
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> The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) says the risk of having this type of clot is “very small”…
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> …[The MHRA said](https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/975888/Coronavirus_vaccine_-_summary_of_Yellow_Card_reporting_21.03.21_.pdf) it had received 22 reports of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) - where a blood clot forms in the brain - and eight reports of “other thrombosis events with low platelets [the cells involved in clotting]” following use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, out of a total of 18.1 million doses given up to and including 24 March.

The FT reports that there were 7 deaths.

Why _Oh Shit_ ? Well, when your pharmacovigilance system doesn’t report 30 cases of a very rare event until weeks after people have been telling you that this is definitely happening, it’s not a good look for your competence.

And to many people who were suspicious of the vaccination program in the first place… this is going to do nothing to persuade them that the whole truth about the vaccine is out there.

j

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