DISINFO: AstraZeneca kills
SUMMARY
AstraZeneca kills: a European country refused it.
RESPONSE
Disinformation that advances pro-Kremlin propaganda against the COVID-19 vaccines produced in the USA and Europe. The claim appeared in the title wrongly creating an impression that AstraZeneca Vaccine is designed to cause deaths.
It is true that in Austria a 49-year old woman died as a result of multiple thromboses and a 35-year-old was also hospitalised for a pulmonary embolism after receiving a vaccine from the same batch. However, the Federal Office for Safety in Health Care of Austria said that there is no evidence of a causal relationship with vaccination.
Austria did not refuse to use the vaccine, but only a certain batch of the vaccine will not be used. European Medicine Agency also said that there is no proof that AstraZeneca vaccine caused death.
A number of EU Member States' Health authorities are currently reviewing the medial cases where side effects have occurred while they have suspended the use of that vaccine or batch. No EU Member States has decided to cancelled the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
On 18 March 2021, EMA confirmed that the benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccine still outweigh the risks despite the possible link to rare blood clots with low blood platelets.
See more disinformation regarding the vaccine such as claims that the globalists use the pandemic and Pfizer vaccine to reduce the world's population or that there is no evidence Russia waged a disinformation campaign targeting Western coronavirus vaccines.