RIPPLES OF COVID-19 STILL BEING FELT

There is suddenly major hue and cry over the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca's admission in court that its anti Covid vaccine, which has been manufactured and marketed in India as Covishield, may have some rare side-effects of blood clotting known as TTS, apart from loss of platelets.

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Amid the panic that is being sought to be created, a quick look at the statistics shows that worldwide, there have been 51 such cases among the billions of doses given of this particular vaccine. Most importantly, such cases had occurred typically within 4 to 42 days of the vaccine being administered. It is up to AstraZeneca to defend itself in the UK court which is hearing the lawsuit filed by British citizen Jamie Scott, who claims that it was because of the AstraZeneca vaccine that he got a permanent brain injury in April 2021. But the latest outcry brings to focus several larger issues that the world needs to talk about.