While the governments of European Union countries are still struggling with the lack of vaccines and the slow progress of vaccination, one of the more commonly used vaccines in the local area-the British AstraZeneca/Oxford University vaccine has problems.
According to Deutsche News Agency, medical institutions in various European countries have reported a large number of adverse reactions after vaccination with AstraZeneca, and people in many places have boycotted the vaccine.
According to reports, in the Emden Hospital in northern Germany, after 194 employees were vaccinated by AstraZeneca on the 19th, more than 30 employees experienced headaches, fatigue and fever and had to take leave. A large number of medical staff asked for leave to make the hospital operate. Affected. Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia and other places have temporarily cancelled the AstraZeneca vaccination.
People in EU countries have begun to receive AstraZeneca vaccines.
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The Swedish public television station SVT also reported that in Södermanland and Gävleborg provinces in Sweden, about 25% of medical staff vaccinated with AstraZeneca took sick leave the next day. The Swedish Drug Administration has suspended the vaccination of the vaccine, but it is expected to resume vaccination this week.
A hospital in the Normandy region of France has stopped AstraZeneca vaccination for the same reason. According to reports, 50% to 70% of the front-line medical staff who received the AstraZeneca vaccine in the hospital had an adverse reaction and had to take sick leave, which made the already overwhelmed medical service even more tight.
In addition to criticizing the side effects, the effectiveness of the AstraZeneca vaccine has also been questioned. “Deutsche Welle” said on the 21st that German medical staff generally believe that the AstraZeneca vaccine is not as effective as the Pfizer and Modena vaccines in the United States. According to data from the Robert Koch Institute in Germany, only 87,000 of the 737,000 doses delivered to Germany by AstraZeneca have been vaccinated.
In addition, 500 medical staff in the Austrian capital of Vienna have signed a joint protest letter requesting that the AstraZeneca vaccine be replaced by a Pfizer vaccine.
Due to the tight supply of vaccines in Europe, there is a problem of slow vaccination speed, but it is not necessary for Pfizer or Modena vaccines in the United States to be available. The public’s suspicion of the AstraZeneca vaccine may further affect the progress of vaccination in Europe, and the side effects of the AstraZeneca vaccine are not too serious.
In order to quell medical staff and the public’s worries about vaccines, German Health Minister Span said on the 19th that he was “very confident” in the AstraZeneca vaccine, calling it “safe and effective.”
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