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 ?
