The news had the effect of a bomb! On Thursday March 11, 2021, Denmark, Norway and Iceland announced that they were suspending the AstraZeneca vaccine "as a precaution" after "reports of serious cases of blood clots forming". The Danish authorities explained as follows: "Reports of serious cases of blood clots in people who have been vaccinated with AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine ". Information that worried many other European countries, and in particular France, at the very moment when the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 is accelerating. Indeed, patients over 50 years of age with co-morbidities can benefit from this vaccine. The injection can be performed at the general practitioner and, from Monday March 15, in a pharmacy. However, the british serum continues to generate many questions on its effectiveness and above all, on its dangerousness after the death of a nurse. Following these new revelations, how will the French authorities react?
AstraZeneca: Olivier Véran contacted the National Medicines Safety Agency
The answer was given on March 11 during the weekly press conference held by the Minister of Health Olivier Véran. The tenant of avenue Duquesne wanted to be reassuring in the face of growing concern. "I contacted the National Medicines Safety Agency", did he declare. And he assured him: the news is good. "According to her, there is no need to suspend vaccination with AstraZeneca. Vaccination with AstraZeneca will therefore continue in France". A decision that is likely to cause a lot of noise while the minister has also announced thata new vaccination record was set with 286,000 people having received a dose in 24 hours. A few days before the first anniversary of the confinement of March 2020, Olivier Véran concluded: "We have been going through this pandemic together for a year now. It is together that we have held since the beginning, it is together that we will get there". Could this be a message of hope at a time when rumors about the risks of a new confinement are becoming more and more tenacious?
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