AstraZeneca vaccine: reaction to advice on jabs for under 30s
Vaccine centre volunteer, 26, and student, 19, respond to MHRA review of this Covid-19 injection
The UK government's vaccination advisory body, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority, recommended that healthy adults under 30 should be offered an alternative vaccine to AstraZeneca if available and they are not at high risk of Covid, amid concerns over reports of rare blood clots among the immunised after vaccination.
In the UK, up to 31 March there were 79 reports of these rare blood clots with low platelets. Nineteen people died, although it is not known whether the blood clots were the cause in all the deaths. Three of the people were under the age of 30. About 20m AstraZeneca doses were administered in the UK, according to data up to 21 March.
Continue reading...