Amid the ocean of corporate profiteering and cronyism during the Covid pandemic over PPE, ventilators, oxygen supplies, and test and trace schemes, AstraZeneca stands out from the crowd. Together with scientists from the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford, the Anglo-Swedish
Just one in four people suffer mild side effects after taking a coronavirus vaccine, real-world data has shown. Data from the ZOE Covid Symptom Tracking Study — a surveillance tool that tracks Britain’s outbreak — showed headaches, fatigue and fever were more
Yesterday the European Commission confirmed it had begun the process of taking the drug manufacturer to court for delays to deliveries. The bloc was left angered when AstraZeneca said it would only be able to provide about a third of the doses
Hospital accidentally gives woman wrong second Covid vaccine 'in first error of its kind in Britain'
A hospital has accidentally dished out the wrong second Covid vaccine dose to a woman, in what is believed to be the first error of its kind in Britain. The patient — who wasn’t identified — turned up at the Great Western
The European Commission said on Monday it had launched legal action against the pharmaceutical giant for failing to respect the terms of its contract with the 27-nation bloc. The move comes as Brussels has been embroiled in a bitter row with AstraZeneca
A ‘fit and healthy’ engineer has tragically died just three weeks after taking the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine. Jack Last, 27, died at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge on Tuesday, April 20, just 11 days after attending A&E because he was suffering from headaches.
Half the UK population has now had at least one jab against Covid-19 and Public Health England says the vaccines have already saved at least 6,000 lives and stopped many becoming ill. But for all its success, the rollout has raised questions about
A fit and healthy roofer has been rushed to hospital with life-threatening blood clots two weeks after having the AstraZeneca Covid jab. Paul Curtis, 50, from Poole, Dorset, fell ill a week and a half after taking the AstraZeneca vaccine. The step-father
The European Commission has announced it is taking AstraZeneca to court for delays to deliveries. The Prime Minister’s official spokesman this afternoon defended the company as a “hugely strong partner” in the fight against Covid-19. While he would not be drawn on
Most of the 11 million AstraZeneca vaccines due to reach the Netherlands in the coming weeks will go unused, the head of the country’s public health institute’s vaccination department has said. Jaap van Deldon admitted that millions of the ordered Covid-19 doses