LE FIGARO.
- Is the Haute Autorité de santé right to cancel the second injection of the AstraZeneca vaccine before age 55?
To discover
Test, isolation: the procedure to follow in the event of a suspicion of Covid-19
A lead to explain the rare thromboses linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine
Lucien ABENHAIM.
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Yes, that's a good decision.
First of all, we must examine the relationship between the risk that this vaccination entails and its benefit, which is not to die from Covid-19 or to have serious sequelae.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has identified 44 cerebral venous thromboses for 9 million injected doses, outside the United Kingdom (or 1 in 200,000, Editor's note).
The usual risk of cerebral venous thrombosis is 5 per million people per year.
Warning: this figure should be reported to 8 days, because it is the average time after vaccination in which these complications occur.
The expected risk is therefore actually 1 in 10 million over eight days.
Should I forgo vaccination with AstraZeneca?
The incidence of death from thrombosis following the vaccine is at least 1 in 300,000, all sexes and ages combined.
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