Tuesday, Germany changed the rules for administering AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine following new cases of circulatory problems (thrombosis) found in some recently vaccinated people. From Wednesday, the AstraZeneca vaccine will only be given to people over 60, while people under the age of 60 will only be able to get the vaccine by taking the risk and after a careful examination of their clinical situation and the risks associated with the vaccine.
The decision was made by the government and health ministers of all federal states after the Standing Commission for Vaccines (STIKO) changed its recommendations on vaccine use. In turn, the Commission released the new recommendations after the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, the government agency that deals with the safety of medicines, highlighted new cases of a rare form of thrombosis in people who had received the vaccine. AstraZeneca. New cases of thrombosis, wrote it Spiegel, they affect 31 of the approximately 2.7 million people in Germany who received the AstraZeneca vaccine, and most of them occurred in people under the age of 60.
AstraZeneca vaccine administration had already been suspended in Europe in early March after a few cases of thrombosis were found in people who had received the vaccine. Dosing was then restarted after the European Medicines Agency (EMA) confirmed the safety of the vaccine by explaining that not having found a causal link between thrombosis cases in general and the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
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