The Hellenic Society of Infectious Ailments in its announcement states the explanations that led to the choice to withdraw the vaccine from the Astra-Zeneca firm towards COVID-19, noting that this industrial choice led to a resurgence of anti-vaccination conspiracy theories.
Astra-Zeneca has introduced the withdrawal of its vaccine towards SARS-CoV-2 an infection. The explanations for the choice have been the non-updating of the vaccine leading to an absence of exercise towards circulating virus variants, the existence of huge shares of competing, efficient vaccines, and present epidemiological information. These causes minimized the industrial curiosity of this specific vaccine and led to the enterprise choice to withdraw it from the market.
Sadly, this industrial choice has led to a resurgence of anti-vaccination conspiracy theories, and the reinstatement of baseless pseudoscientific arguments concerning the unwanted side effects of vaccination, which have created unwarranted fears within the public.
To be able to restore the reality and to guard Greek residents from the unfold of false information, the Hellenic Society of Infections states the next:
1. This specific vaccine was designed and developed by the main College of Oxford and its security and effectiveness have been verified by legitimate medical research, managed by impartial scientific our bodies and below the supervision of presidency regulatory authorities. The research have been revealed after impartial evaluation on this planet’s main scientific journals. The vaccine has proven 60%-80% effectiveness in defending towards the coronavirus.
2. Since then greater than 3 billion doses of Astra – Zeneca’s vaccine have been administered in additional than 150 nations, saving hundreds of thousands of lives. The World Well being Group estimates that throughout the pandemic at the very least 20 million lives have been saved by the modern vaccines.
3. In Greece, greater than 22 million doses of vaccines have been administered, with Astra-Zeneca’s vaccine accounting for barely greater than 10%. A examine revealed in an authoritative journal estimated that the vaccination program in our nation saved tens of 1000’s of lives. The massive vaccination protection in Greece allowed the well timed lifting of visitors restrictions (lockdown) and the resumption of financial and social life.
4. Pharmacovigilance applications launched after the vaccines have been launched detected a particularly uncommon aspect impact of the Astra – Zeneca vaccine, characterised by blood clots and low platelet counts, and in some circumstances can result in demise. The frequency of this aspect impact is 1-3 circumstances per 100,000 doses and happens within the first month after vaccination. In Greece, at the very least three deaths have been related to the Astra-Zeneca vaccine. These tragic incidents are a reminder that there is no such thing as a vaccine, drug, surgical procedure or every other medical process with zero unwanted side effects or issues.
5. Mass disinformation, particularly from social media, has precipitated public mistrust, with tragic penalties. It was a tragic phenomenon in our nation within the interval 2021-22, whereas there have been vaccines out there for COVID-19 that unvaccinated folks continued to die. Research within the US estimated that at the very least 200,000 deaths would have been averted in 2021-22 if victims had been vaccinated.
6. The Hellenic Society of Infections informs Greek residents who’ve acquired the Astra – Zeneca vaccine that there is no such thing as a threat to their well being as a result of the uncommon aspect impact of thrombosis / thrombocytopenia happens within the first month after vaccination.
7. The Hellenic Society of Infectious Ailments remembers that vaccination of the inhabitants and entry to scrub water are the 2 most vital interventions within the historical past of Public Well being associated to the spectacular improve in life expectancy and the development of the standard of life worldwide. Ailments that precipitated hundreds of thousands of deaths and disabilities every year disappeared, whereas neoplasms related to infections have been dramatically diminished by means of vaccination.
8. The Hellenic Society of Infectious Ailments invitations residents to be told by legitimate scientific sources which are out there to everybody. Legitimate info is out there on the EEL web site (www.loimoxeis.gr), on the web site of the Nationwide Immunization Committee and on different Scientific Societies and Organizations. The well-informed citizen is society’s defend towards ignorance, superstition, charlatanism, superstition and populism, which search to nullify science’s best present to man, vaccination.
The President, Professor Nikolaos V. Sypsas, and the Common Secretary, Katerina Argyraki.
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