15/04/2021
Breaking news: read it with "Google translate" from Danish.
"AstraZeneca vaccine is dropped in Denmark"
- That leaves three approved vaccines left, one of which has been paused.
The vaccine from AstraZeneca is now dropped completely in Denmark and is written out of the entire vaccination program.
This is how it sounds from the health authorities at a press conference in the National Board of Health on Wednesday. Denmark is thus the first country in the world to choose to scrap the vaccine completely after it has been on hiatus in several countries, while the connection between the vaccine and a few, but unusual side effects is investigated.
Delayed for two reasons
The decision to drop the vaccine comes for two different reasons.
One reason is that a link between the vaccine and serious side effects such as rare blood clots can now be found. This is what the director of the National Board of Health, Søren Brostrøm, says at today's press conference.
- We know that this is something that is due to the vaccine.
Therefore, the second reason for dropping the vaccine is also that the authorities do not want to run any risk by using it as long as the infection in Denmark is under as much control as it is at the moment.
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Det efterlader tre godkendte vacciner tilbage, hvoraf den ene er sat på pause.
