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Re:AstraZeneca vaccine safe and effective in U.S., Chile, Pe... by Leparamour on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:12AM (#26538395)
>There is something strange going on in Scandinavia because UK has reported nothing special with two orders of magnitude more people vaccinated.

I don't want to start conspiracy theories but I wouldn't be surprised if it came to light that, in the UK, reports about deaths and side-effects have been suppressed. In the wake of a disastrous Brexit, the UK is in desperate need of a success story and with the Astrazeneca/Oxford vaccine seen as the British contender, it might have become a question of national pride to have it succeed. British newspapers (well, tabloids) present the UK vaccination rate as a vindictive competition with the EU.

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Re:AstraZeneca vaccine safe and effective in U.S., Chile, Pe... by ChrisKnott on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:45AM (#26538627)
The UK, like most countries, is very transparent with reporting side effects and has a robust system for capturing the data.
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Re:AstraZeneca vaccine safe and effective in U.S., Chile, Pe... by nicoburns on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:33AM (#26538540)
As a UK citizen, I would be very surprised. The government might want to do that, but I can't see the medical professionals standing for it.
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Re:AstraZeneca vaccine safe and effective in U.S., Chile, Pe... by kcartlidge on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:36PM (#26547505)
> I wouldn't be surprised if it came to light that, in the UK, reports about deaths and side-effects have been suppressed

If we (I'm British) were accomplished enough to reputation-manage for the vaccine response, I'd have expected the initial (huge) death toll to have been under-reported too - which it clearly hasn't.

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Re:AstraZeneca vaccine safe and effective in U.S., Chile, Pe... by ArgyleSound on Monday March 22, 2021 @06:46AM (#26539027)
Please don’t start moronic conspiracy theories
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Re:AstraZeneca vaccine safe and effective in U.S., Chile, Pe... by ginko on Monday March 22, 2021 @08:24AM (#26539814)
It's about as moronic as the people calling individual EU countries' cautious response to the blood clotting cases a political face saving measure by Brussels.
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