Winston wrote: ↑April 30th, 2024, 7:29 pm
Wow check this out. Everyone in India is in an uproar after one of the Covid vaccine manufacturers Astra Zeneca admitted that the vaccine causes blood clots. This means the US government and medical establishment LIED when they said it was safe, right? So authority lies a lot right? What do you think @Yohan?
More than 2 years ago (around the beginning of 2022) Japan has produced AstraZeneca within Japan by its own Pharma Industries, but there were complaints, checked again in Japan with additional medical trials and it was found unsafe for people younger than 40, despite it was used in Japan using only half of the recommended dose.
The use of it and all contracts were cancelled in 2022 and some doses were given away to abroad (to Philippines mostly) and a large part was thrown out.
It passed only partially the required Japanese standard, now not produced in Japan anymore.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20 ... na/004000c
Japan ends distribution of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, discards 13.5 mil doses
October 1, 2022 (Mainichi Japan)
TOKYO -- Japan has discarded some 13.5 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as all of the remaining shots supplied by the British pharmaceutical company have expired, the health ministry announced on Sept. 30.
Japan is officially ending the administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The Japanese government agreed in December 2020 to buy 120 million coronavirus vaccine doses from AstraZeneca. According to sources including the health ministry, only 200,000 doses have been shipped to local governments and 120,000 doses have been administered.
Japan has since canceled a contract for 62.3 million doses, and of the already acquired supply, it gave some 44 million doses to other countries free of charge. The remaining doses have been thrown out.
Based on the confidentiality agreement with the drug maker, the government has not disclosed the purchase price or how much they will be refunded for the canceled doses.
The AstraZeneca vaccine was once the world frontrunner to be put to practical use, but outside Japan, there were rare cases of blood clots as a side effect. Distribution in Japan was sluggish, as the government limited administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine to those aged 40 and older.
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1581582/j ... e-purchase
Japan cancels a third of contracted Astrazeneca vaccine purchase
Reuters / 06:04 PM April 11, 2022
TOKYO — Japan has canceled the purchase of about 40 million AstraZeneca Plc COVID-19 vaccine doses it agreed to buy last year, a health ministry official said in parliament on Monday.
The contract allowed the government to cancel a portion of the supply if it was unneeded, the official said in response to lawmakers’ questioning. Japan had originally agreed to buy 120 million of the shots, with the bulk made domestically by Daiichi Sankyo Co. and other local partners.
About 200,000 AstraZeneca doses have been supplied to local governments in Japan, while 63 million doses have donated overseas, the official added.
Japan has predominantly relied on the mRNA-type vaccines developed by Pfizer Inc and Moderna Inc for its COVID inoculations and boosters so far.
Many of my family members took 7 shots but only by Pfizer/Moderna, side effects were all gone within 2 to 3 days. Nobody who took these 7 shots were infected by Covid-19 despite there was no lockdown in Japan, despite my travel to Thailand etc. and despite living together with infected family members.
However those who did not (the wife and daughter of my brother in law, and the 2 children of my daughter because still to young) were infected by Covid-19, and it was a painful time for them, it took 2 to 3 weeks to be back to normal life again.
I also received all 7 shots (there is no #8 shot) and was never infected, despite travelling to Thailand and Philippines, despite not using a mask when not obliged to do (like in medical clinics, airplanes etc.) - no side effects noticed up to today.
My last vaccination was 8th Nov. 2023. Pfizer/BioNTech Comirnaty XBB 1.5.