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Now anti-vaxxers turn on Pfizer and Moderna after AstraZeneca’s decision to withdraw Covid jab sparks panic about rare but deadly clotting side effect (and pockets the pharma titan £2.5billion)

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Anti-vaxxers today called for Pfizer and Moderna to urgently withdraw their Covid jabs in the wake of heightened safety fears.

AstraZeneca’s landmark decision to withdraw its lockdown-banishing vaccine from global markets sparked hysteria online about the rival jabs – made using pioneering tech never utilised until the virus crisis spawned.

The UK-based pharmaceutical titan insisted its decision was a commercial one due to demand being slim, with its jab no longer being manufactured. 

Ministers favour superior mRNA jabs, like those

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Is AstraZeneca’s Covid jab ‘defective’? How firm that supplied 50million doses to the UK could face £90million lawsuit over rare blood clot side effect

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The AstraZeneca Covid vaccine has been labelled ‘defective’ in a multi-million-pound lawsuit by patients who suffered a rare side-effect.

Two cases brought against the pharmaceutical giant in the High Court could open the floodgates to dozens more Brits seeking legal compensation for similar injuries.

While the jab was rolled out successfully to millions in Britian, a fraction suffered from a severe blood clot complication missed in the jab’s original clinical trials.

One of the claimants is IT engineer Jamie Scott,

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Monkeypox myths DEBUNKED: Bogus conspiracy theories say AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine contains virus

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The monkeypox outbreak that has swept the globe has churned up dozens of bogus conspiracy theories about its origins, how it is spread and its symptoms.

Some of the myths being peddled online include that the outbreak is actually just a ‘cover up’ of vaccine-induced shingles and that AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine causes monkeypox. 

Others have wrongly suggested the virus leaked from the Chinese lab at the heart of Covid’s origin debate, and that eating meat in Britain may give someone

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Boost für Pascal Soriot, während Astrazenecas Stoß gegen Omicron kämpft

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Astrazeneca erringt einen Sieg, nachdem eine Laborstudie zeigt, dass sein Covid-19-Impfstoff gegen die Omicron-Variante wirksam ist

Von Calum Muirhead für die Daily Mail

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Der Pharmariese Astrazeneca erzielte einen weiteren Sieg, nachdem eine Laborstudie gezeigt hatte, dass sein Covid-19-Impfstoff gegen die Omicron-Variante wirksam war.

Die zusammen mit der Universität Oxford entwickelte Impfung „erhöhte“ die Antikörperspiegel nach einer dritten Dosis – passend zu den von Pfizer,

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Europe hit by wave of Covid partly because it didn’t use AstraZeneca’s jab, suggests vaccine maker

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Europe may be suffering a ferocious fourth wave of Covid hospital admissions because it delayed rolling out the AstraZeneca vaccine to older people, the boss of the pharmaceutical giant suggested today.

Pascal Soriot, chief executive at AstraZeneca, said the decision by most major EU nations to restrict the jab earlier in the year could explain why Britain’s neighbours are now starting to record higher intensive care rates despite having similar case numbers to the UK.

Just 67million doses of AZ

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