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Published on
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff and wire
services
After
more than three billion doses, the
Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is being
withdrawn, according to a report published
by the British Broad
Corporation (BBC), the national
broadcaster of the United Kingdom. BBC
report stated that AstraZeneca said it was
"incredibly proud" of the vaccine, but it
had made a commercial decision. The
British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical
and biotechnology company said the rise of
new coronavirus variants meant demand had
shifted to the newer updated
vaccines. "Its
vaccine was estimated to have saved millions
of lives during the pandemic but also caused
rare, and sometimes fatal, blood clots,"
reads the BBC report. In
the race to lift the world out of pandemic
lockdowns, the Covid vaccine was developed by
scientists at the University of Oxford in
record time. A process that normally takes 10 years was
accelerated down to
about 10 months. In
November 2020, it was heralded as "a vaccine
for the world" as it was far cheaper and
easier to store than other Covid vaccines.
The pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca had
agreed to manufacture it en masse. Initially,
it was the cornerstone of the UK's plans to
vaccinate our way out of lockdown. "The truth is it made an enormous difference, it was what lifted us out of the catastrophe that was unfolding at the time, combined with the other vaccine from Pfizer," said Prof Adam Finn, from the University of Bristol.
However, its
reputation was dented as
unusual blood clots emerged as a
rare side
effect of the vaccine, and
the UK turned
to alternatives. In a
statement, AstraZeneca said:
"According to independent
estimates, over 6.5
million lives were saved in
the first year of use alone." "Our
efforts have been recognized by
governments around the world and are
widely regarded as being a critical
component of ending the global
pandemic." The
firm said the development of new
vaccines that more closely match the
mutated forms of Covid that are now
circulating meant there was a "surplus
of available updated vaccines", leading
to a "decline in demand" for its
vaccine which is
"no longer being manufactured or
supplied". Prof
Finn added: "I think the withdrawal
of the vaccine simply
reflects it's no longer useful. "It's
turned out that this virus is very
agile and it's
evolved away from the original
vaccines, so they have in a sense become
irrelevant and only
the reformulated vaccines are likely
to be being used now." In
Costa Rica, there is no currently
available information on how many
AstraZeneca vaccine doses were
applied. According
to Social
Security, the Costa
Rica vaccination campaign against
covid-19 included Pfizer and
AstraZeneca vaccines. As
of September 2023, over 13.5
million doses of
the vaccine against
covid-19 (including Pfizer or
AstraZeneca) have been
applied in
the country since the beginning of the
inoculation campaign in December 2020. Health
authority's statistics show that 9,428
fatalities have been attributed to
covid-19 as of December 2023, dating
back to the beginning of the pandemic
in 2020. What have you heard regarding deaths caused by the AstraZeneca covid vaccination in your country? We would like to know your thoughts on this story. Send your comments to news@amcostarica.com
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