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Is the AstraZeneca vaccine safe?

Welcome to the fourteenth episode of Deciphering the virus.

After the arrival of the first Pfizer vaccines and Modern three months ago, again we are at a time where pharmaceutical companies have all the media focus, but for different reasons.

While the European Medicines Agency approved the Jansen’s vaccine, the first to be single-dose, doubts about the reliability of the once-expected European vaccination of Oxford y AstraZeneca they do not stop growing.

Denmark announced that it was suspending its administration after detecting cases of thrombi that could be related to inoculation, one of them resulting in death. A temporary suspension but that has generated a call effect causing partial or total suspensions throughout Europe.

Also, in the ‘current paper, our chief virologist Estanislao Nistal Villán brings us an article of a comparative study carried out in Israel, the country with most vaccinated population in the world, where more than a million and a half people from different groups have been compared to determine the immune efficacy of those inoculated with the Pfizer vaccine.

Photo: AstraZeneca vaccines at the Central University Hospital of Asturias (HUCA), in Oviedo.  (EFE)

To discuss these and other issues we have as a guest Quique Bassat, pediatrician and epidemiologist from the Barcelona Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal), who will be accompanied by the scientists Estanislao Nistal-Villán and Juan José López-Moya and the journalists of El Confidencial, Antonio Villarreal Y Angel Villarino.

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