AstraZeneca admits its Covid vaccine may cause side effects such as thrombosis in “very rare cases”

AstraZeneca admitted it for the first time Your Covid 19 vaccine may have side effects A legal document submitted to the United Kingdom’s High Court in February described it as causing thrombosis in “very rare cases”, according to newspaper ‘The Telegraph’.

This statement of the pharmaceutical company comes within the framework of the judicial process of the English Supreme Court, in which there is an open class action lawsuit 51 cases of victims and relatives They are claiming up to £100 million from AstraZeneca for damages and losses caused by side effects of the vaccine.

One of the effects is the syndrome thrombosis with thrombocytopenia, Which is a clot in the blood vessels of the brain, leg or any other part of the body.

AstraZeneca now rejects the statements included in the complaints, but admits that its doses “can, in very rare cases, cause thrombosis.” In particular, lawyers for the complainants argue that the vaccine, developed in conjunction with the University of Oxford, “has had a devastating impact on a small number of families.”

One of the first cases to go to trial was the case of Jaime Scott, which has been dropped. Permanent brain injury after a clot And he was prevented from working after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine in April 2021 due to a brain hemorrhage.

In May 2023, AstraZeneca also responded through a judicial response that it did not accept the thesis that Scott’s case was caused by its vaccine.