***Repost from earlier this afternoon:***

Provinces in Canada have just halted the use of the AstraZeneca vaccines.

According to CBC News reports this afternoon, Health Canada — which approved the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVAX vaccine for use in Canada in February — said its regulators would be adding "additional terms and conditions on the authorizations" for AstraZeneca and a biologically identical version of the drug manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, which has been branded Covishield.

Health Canada will now require the manufacturers of these AstraZeneca vaccines to conduct a "detailed assessment of the benefits and risks of the vaccine by age and sex in the Canadian context," information that could lead to "additional regulatory actions.

The press release in Canada said: "The additional information requested from the manufacturers of the AstraZeneca vaccines will be used to support the ongoing evaluation of blood clotting events, and allow Health Canada to determine if there are specific groups of people who may be at higher risk."

Apparently Health Canada has concerns about younger people under the age of 55 developing a rare type of potentially deadly blood clot. Individuals around the age of 35 may be at greatest risk, especially women.

Meanwhile, the US Food & Drug Administration still has not approved the AstraZeneca vaccines for emergency use in the US. But the Communist China controlled W.H.O. and its affiliate the P.A.H.O. nevertheless continue to maintain the AstraZeneca vaccines are safe for everyone and that seems good enough for our own health officials here in the Bahamas.

**And my Repost**

My guess would be a temporary pause, similar to those also introduced by some EU countries, but then reinstated soon after.
After all, 25 cases of CVST out of 20 million shots given, is a far smaller percentage than those who die after contracting COVID.

I know you and a few others on here like to use the survival rate of COVID as your main argument against the social & economic restrictions, so using that same argument you shouldn't have an issue with the AZ vaccine, right?

My friend, there are many of us who have major personal issues with AstraZeneca itself as perhaps the world's most aggressive Big Pharma corporation. It has a well known history of chasing windfall profits at the expense of the health and well being of the ultimate users of its newer 'rushed-to-market' products when the opportunity arises. Its litigation track record also speaks volumes when compared to the other pharma giants, both as to the nature of the matters litigated and the settlement amounts involved.

Please enlighten us with links to the litigation of which you speak.

Do your own homework.

Sorry but no, AstraZeneca is the only Big Pharma entity that pledged from the outset to cut their profit margins until the pandemic was over, last year before their vaccine was developed and/or deemed successful, and costs unknown they entered contracts to sell their vaccines at $4@, $3 for poorer countries.
If they had set the price equal to Moderna's at $28@, a 300 billion vaccine contract would have cost $84 billion, Pfizer's at $15@, $45 billion, not AZ's price of $1.2 billion The WHO rightly said they developed 'a vaccine for the world'.
But yes, The Bahamas government should definitely at least stop giving the vaccines to those under 50 the age group affected with deadly side effects, new data shows the efficacy in those over 50 rises from 76% to 85%.
I will not be taking this vaccine but disinformation is dangerous.

It is not just a matter of the cases of CVST in Europe, it is rather a vaccine-induced systemic blood disorder, now the UK and a host of other countries are reporting and investigating more cases and deaths.
The Atlantic has an enlightening article on the dangers and of mislabeling this syndrome. The heightened alerts are based on new cases/data, but the study quoted found that "though all were healthy before they developed a highly unusual, seemingly contradictory mix of blood disorders: clots throughout the body along with low numbers of platelets, the blood cells that help clots form. In a follow-up article published on Saturday, Vogel and Kupferschmidt cited a German researcher who has named the syndrome “vaccine-induced prothrombotic immune thrombocytopenia,” or VIPIT... the prothrombotic immune thrombocytopenia problem had already been recast in the English-language media as simply one of “blood clots... Seen in that context, the decisions to suspend the AstraZeneca rollout were puzzling—and perhaps, as some maintained, driven more by emotions than by data. The European Medicines Agency had helped create this impression"...but "These generic blood-clot data turned out to have little to do with the very specific, potential risks that several countries were confronting. The EMA said on March 18 that it had found, by then, a possible link to the AstraZeneca vaccine among 25 people who had developed the disturbing blood disorder, including nine who had died from it. All 25 had low platelet counts. Seven also had blood clots throughout their blood vessels—a condition known as disseminated intravascular coagulation, which showed up here at about five times the generally expected rate. The rest had blood clots that prevented blood from draining from their brain—a condition known as cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, which occurred at about nine times the expected rate. Also on March 18, the vaccine authority in the U.K. reported that it was investigating five cases of those cerebral clots in people with low platelets."
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/arch…

tri-silly? China is using a different vaccine from the rest of the world. the developed their own which is being used in Brazil. They are not using the english patent version. if your going to make sweeping generalizations, please at least try to make them accurate.

Wrong. Canada's supply of the AstraZeneca vaccine was sourced from the US where it has not been approved by the FDA for emergency use.