Five Norwegians died after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine last year. Now the vaccine company admits that they could have communicated differently when it stormed the worst.
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– What happened is incredibly sad and sad. We have condoled to the families who have contacted us and they obviously have our deepest sympathy, says communications director for AstraZeneca, Jacob Lund, to VG.
11. mars 2021 Norway put the AstraZeneca vaccine on pause after the first report of unusual blood clots after vaccination.
In the days that followed ticked in several cases with the life-threatening combination of low blood platelets and unusual blood clots also in this country.
A total of five people, all health workers, died from the rare side effect.
The vaccine triggered an unexpected immune response which has triggered the system in the sick patients.
In the podcast «Brain disaster » VG tells the story of Marius Holden, who had his life turned upside down after taking the AstraZeneca vaccine.
– Terribly heavy
– It is terribly heavy when healthy people are affected by very, very rare side effects when it should be a vaccine that will protect them against a serious and contagious disease we have lived with in recent years, Lund says.