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AstraZeneca Withdraws COVID Vaccine from the Global Market

AstraZeneca Withdraws COVID Vaccine from the Global Market

The company asserts it is because of low demand, and not related to side effects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxsTKVw45JM

The last time we checked on reports about AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, the pharmaceutical firm had admitted that its product could cause a deadly side effect from blood clotting. The stunning admission came during a court proceeding related to a class action lawsuit.

AstraZeneca has started withdrawing the vaccine from global markets because of low demand. The firm denies that the move is related to concerns about the shot’s side effects.

Since the vaccine was approved in Britain in December 2020, over three billion doses have been supplied globally. But in the past few years, demand has plummeted as other manufacturers have released shots tailored to newer variants and countries have opted to use those. AstraZeneca’s shot, which was developed with Oxford University, is no longer being manufactured or supplied.

The company said it had decided to voluntarily withdraw all licenses to market its Covid vaccine. That process began months ago, and very few active licenses remain, the company said. The Telegraph in Britain earlier reported the decision on Tuesday.

…Sheena Cruickshank, an immunologist at the University of Manchester, said the company’s decision to pull the shot was “not a surprise.” Unlike other manufacturers, AstraZeneca did not update its shot to target emerging virus variants because it used a vaccine technology, known as a viral vector, that was less amenable to such changes.

Earlier this year, AstraZeneca requested that the vaccine be withdrawn from most European countries. The European Commission has now approved the request.

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine was first given the nod by the EMA in January 2021. Within weeks, however, concerns grew about the vaccine’s safety, when dozens of countries suspended the vaccine’s use after unusual but rare blood clots were detected in a small number of immunized people. The EU regulator concluded AstraZeneca’s shot didn’t raise the overall risk of clots, but doubts remained.

Partial results from its first major trial — which Britain used to authorize the vaccine — were clouded by a manufacturing mistake that researchers didn’t immediately acknowledge. Insufficient data about how well the vaccine protected older people led some countries to initially restrict its use to younger populations before reversing course.

For those curious, the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines work in different ways. The Pfizer vaccine uses mRNA technology, while the AstraZeneca vaccine uses an adenovirus vector. Moderna uses the same mRNA technology as Pfizer. All the vaccines essentially instruct the cells that take up the vaccine to produce the spike protein found on the surface of SARS-CoV-2 (the coronavirus causing COVID-19).

Once the spike protein is emitted from the cell, the immune system reacts to eliminate the foreign substance. Theoretically, the immune system will then react and destroy the COVID-19 virus whenever there is an exposure.

Interestingly, after the forced lockdowns that were part of the inept pandemic response, obesity rates have shot up.

AstraZeneca now wants a piece of the obesity-curing drug market. The firm eventually aims to produce an Ozempic-like drug in pill form.

AstraZeneca Plc Chief Executive Officer Pascal Soriot envisions his company bringing more affordable drugs to people who need to lose a modest amount of weight for health reasons but don’t necessarily have obesity.

One day after the UK drugmaker announced a deal to develop an obesity pill with a Chinese biotech, Eccogene, Soriot said the company is aiming for a once-daily pill that’s less costly to produce than injectable obesity medicines, such as Wegovy from Novo Nordisk A/S and newly approved Zepbound from Eli Lilly & Co. That would allow AstraZeneca to sell it at a far lower price than those drugs, which go for more than $1,000 a month in the US.

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Comments

At one point, CA gov newscum was pushing this vax on state residents. Anybody who questioned it was accused of being anti-science.

    Ironclaw in reply to smooth. | May 9, 2024 at 11:25 am

    AstraZenica wasn’t widely used in the U.S. You might be thinking of Pfizer, Moderna or the J&J.

      Mt. Fuji in reply to Ironclaw. | May 9, 2024 at 1:51 pm

      Does it matter? These evil people that were pushing the vaxx need to be held accountable for their actions. Do you realize that there are several court cases in Australia suing the vaccine makers and the government for allowing a GMO product (per their law) to be sold without proper testing and licensing? How many people have been maimed and died because of these bio-weapons?

E Howard Hunt | May 9, 2024 at 11:18 am

A company should come out with a covid -vaccine vaccine that protects against all of the covid vaccine side effects.

They made their money off of their garbage, no need to keep up the scam now.

AF_Chief_Master_Sgt | May 9, 2024 at 11:38 am

Anyone who trusts Big Pharma after the COVID Scamdemic needs to inject themselves with bleach. Admittedly, Biden keeps telling us we need to inject ourselves with bleach. He blames Trump but he’s touting it to everyone who will listen.

henrybowman | May 9, 2024 at 11:48 am

“AstraZeneca has started withdrawing the vaccine from global markets because of low demand. The firm denies that the move is related to concerns about the shot’s side effects.”

Outside of the fact that the low demand itself is DUE to the public’s concerns about those side effects.

ChrisPeters | May 9, 2024 at 11:49 am

Too bad it cannot be magically withdrawn from those who accepted the shots.

henrybowman | May 9, 2024 at 11:50 am

“the UK drugmaker announced a deal to develop an obesity pill with a Chinese biotech, Eccogene”

Do these people have any self-awareness at all?

My twitter account was permanently suspended during the pandemic because I tweeted a scientific study (IIRC it was Dutch) that was one of the first to raise safety concerns about the AstraZeneca vaccine. I had no prior warning whatsoever.

“the pharmaceutical firm had admitted that its product could cause a deadly side effect from blood clotting”

Not really an admission for something that was already known well before. This is why the case collapsed because lawyers for the case pointed this out

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/02/bereaved-families-abandon-sue-astrazeneca-covid-vaccine/

    CommoChief in reply to BartE. | May 10, 2024 at 7:43 pm

    Was this known to the public at large simultaneously with the pharmaceutical companies and govt OR was there a lengthy delay by pharmaceutical companies and govt before they decided to share this information with the public at large? Very important to know the exact timeline before we entertain any claims that all this data is ‘old hat’ and thus imply that the data is unremarkable and/or not newsworthy.