AstraZeneca has admitted for the first time in court documents that its Covid vaccine can cause a rare side effect, in an apparent about-turn that could pave the way for a multi-million pound legal payout.
The pharmaceutical giant is being sued in a class action over claims that its vaccine, developed with the University of Oxford, caused death and serious injury in dozens of cases.
The first case was lodged last year by Jamie Scott, a father of two, who was left with a permanent brain injury after developing a blood clot and a bleed on the brain that has prevented him from working after he received the vaccine in April 2021. The hospital called his wife three times to tell her that her husband was going to die.
AstraZeneca is contesting the claims but has accepted, in a legal document submitted to the High Court in February, that its Covid vaccine βcan, in very rare cases, cause TTSβ.
TTS β which stands for Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome β causes people to have blood clots and a low blood platelet count.
So AstraZeneca has admitted in court that their Covid shots caused blood clots.
So where does that leave Australiaβs Chief Medical Officer, the TGA, ATAGI and the WHO that all gave assurances there was no link between AstraZeneca and blood clots ?
Russia could downgrade relations with the US if its assets are seized, the deputy foreign minister has warned.
Moscow could downgrade diplomatic relations with Washington if the US confiscates frozen Russian assets, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov warned on Thursday.
The US and its allies have frozen around $300 billion in Russian central bank assets as part of Ukraine-related sanctions, most of which are being held in the EU.
Washington has long advocated for confiscating the funds, so that the money would then be handed over to Kiev for its war effort against Russia. The latest push came on Saturday, after the US House of Representatives approved a bill authorizing the confiscation of Russian money.
In the meantime in Belarus:
The Security forces in Belarus have prevented a plot to launch combat drones from Lithuania and attack targets in and near the capital, Minsk, the head of the Committee for State Security (KGB) Ivan Tertel has revealed.
The operation took placeΒ βrecentlyβΒ and in cooperation withΒ βcolleagues from other security structures,βΒ the senior official said on Thursday, as he was delivering a speech to the All-Belarusian Peopleβs Assembly, a leading political body.
#BREAKING In the event of an attack on Belarusian territory, the aggressor will receive an immediate response from all types of weapons both from Minsk and from Moscow. – President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko pic.twitter.com/GEXghfEn5T
— The National Independent (@NationalIndNews) April 25, 2024
Capable of striking targets up to 500 kilometers away, Russia has deployed a brigade of Iskander-M missile launchers along the Finnish border. As confirmed by the Izvestia news platform, the move comes as Vladimir Putin seeks to reinforce the newly formed Leningrad Military District (LMD).
Built to carry either conventional or nuclear warheads weighing up to 1,500 pounds, the 9K720 Iskander-M was first used in combat in 2008 during Russiaβs war with Georgia.Β Since then, the missile has been used against Ukraine.
βYou hear people say, βWell, we did the best we could with what we knew.β No, they did not.
They knew better. And if they didnβt know better, they damn well should have known better. Thatβs what theyβre paid to do.β
@DrPhil recalled how βall of a sudden, a few weeks turn into months, and months turn into two years.
You expect there will be a plan, a readiness plan, that takes into account all the collateral damage that can come from doing something like that.β The children suffered. βWhen you shut down the schools, the day you shut them down, you better have a plan for reopening them.
I didnβt see a plan for them to be reopened. And we have an entire generation that is suffering from developmental gaps, educational gaps, mental and emotional challenges. And still, thereβs not a good plan to close those gaps.β βWhen the next pandemic turns the corner, whoβs got the plan then?
β Dr. Phil asked. βWhat was learned from this? Because you donβt hear anybody talking about it, do you? You donβt hear anybody talking about it.β βAnd Iβm not some conspiracy theorist,β he added.
βIβm saying we need to think about whether weβre going to rely on science and how weβre going to react when the government comes in and starts telling us what we can and canβt do. I think we need less government. I think if they would step back, we tend to have a way to work these things out.β
When a pharmaceutical company like pfizer provides absolutely only redacted or blank pages as a study, it typically raises concerns about transparency, validity, and reliability of the given study or research.
Scientific studies in the field of healthcare and pharmaceuticals require utmost transparency to allow for peer review, replication, or verification of results. Peer review is particularly crucial in maintaining the integrity of scientific researches.
Dr. Phil Delivers Stunning Message to the COVID βExpertsβ Who Got it Wrong
The floodgates are opening.
βYou hear people say, βWell, we did the best we could with what we knew.β No, they did not. They knew better. And if they didnβt know better, they damn well should haveβ¦ pic.twitter.com/PC3guMmiRD
Pyongyang insists that the launches were routine and had nothing to do with the rising tensions on the peninsula
North Korea has successfully tested a βsuper-large warheadβ for a cruise missile and a new type of anti-aircraft munition, state-run KCNA news agency has reported.
The βtest of powerβ of the warhead for the Hwasal-1Ra-3 strategic cruise missile and launch of the Pyoltsi-1-2 anti-aircraft missile took place on Friday in the Yellow Sea, the agency said on Saturday. βThe tests achieved purposes concerned,β it noted.
KCNA said the βtests are parts of normal works of national defense research institutionsβ¦ and have nothing to do with [the] situationβ on the Korean Peninsula.
According to South Koreaβs Yonhap news agency, it was the first time Pyongyang has mentioned the βPyoltsiβ system, which means βmeteorβ in Korean.
π°π΅πΊπΈ North Korea has tested a new missile capable of reaching the United States. – FRWL reports pic.twitter.com/Kp3ya5qGYQ
Air defenses have reportedly been activated in several provinces of the Islamic Republic
Israel carried out a series of strikes on Iran in the early hours of Friday, multiple news outlets have reported. The news comes less than a week after the Islamic Republic fired a barrage of drones and missiles at Israel.
Iranian news agency Mehr reported that several explosions were heard around 4 am local time in the skies over the central city of Isfahan.
IRNA news agency said that air defenses have been activated in several parts of Iran, and that Israel also struck military airfields and a radar site in Syria and Iraq.
π¨π¨π¨Update: Israel attacks Iran! Nuclear facilities targeted!! Ballistic missile sites hit!! Drone production facilities too!! I predicted there would be NO warnings!!π₯π₯π₯ pic.twitter.com/gGKI7LvQ1B
Countermeasures could involve a βstrike or no strike,β a military spokesperson had said, according to ABC
The Israeli military has presented a range of options to the government on how to respond to the recent Iranian airstrikes, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson Peter Lerner told journalists on Monday, as reported by ABC news.
Tehran launched several waves of drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles at Israel over the weekend, in response to the bombing of the Iranian embassy in Damascus earlier this month. The strike on the consulate β which West Jerusalem has neither confirmed nor denied β killed seven members of the Iranian military, including two high-ranking generals.
Iran has said its retaliatory operation destroyed two Israeli military bases, although the IDF claimed it intercepted 99% of the more than 300 drones and missiles launched at the country, admitting onlyΒ βminor damageβΒ to Nevatim Airbase.Β Β
#BREAKING#Israel#Iran JUST IN: Channel 14 reports that the cabinet has decided to launch an attack on Iran tonight.
— The National Independent (@NationalIndNews) April 14, 2024
Tehran has warned West Jerusalem against retaliation, vowing a βmuch more extensiveβ pushback
Israel intends to coordinate its response to the recent massive Iranian drone and missile attack with its allies, the New York Times reported on Sunday, citing sources.
However, an unnamed Israeli official would not say when and with whom Israel would hold those consultations.
At the same time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already spoken by phone with US President Joe Biden. According to the White House, the US leader reaffirmedΒ βAmericaβs ironclad commitment to the security of IsraelβΒ and hailed the countryβsΒ βremarkable capacity to defend against and defeat even unprecedented attacks.β
