Re:Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a 'precaution'
by hef19898 on Monday March 15, 2021 @01:12PM
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Vaccines are not that different just because they are for different sickness. And there are no vaccines with any of these side effects, so there is no reason to believe the COVID vaccines will cause anything even close to that. Besides the normal stuff every drug has.
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Re:Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a 'precaution'
by Arnt on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @02:00AM
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That begs the question: For which kind of medicine is there a reason to believe that they may cause anything even close to that?
Re:Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a 'precaution'
by hef19898 on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @03:17AM
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Contagan, which is part of the reason why we have the drug approval process we have. And ever since, we didn't have anything comparable. At least not that I remember.
Re:Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a 'precaution'
by Arnt on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @05:59AM
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I don't think that answers the question. The question was "for which kind of…". Naming one specific past product doesn't answer that, because surely you don't mean that no future candidate warrants can pose similar risk.
Contergan (thus spelt) is thalidomide, BTW. Thalidomide is the name of the active agent, which is used in products named contergan (as well as several other names).