AstraZeneca Crew Member Denies linking vaccine to blood clotting

Oxford University Lecturer and Researcher Dr. Ahmed Salman denied the presence of any direct link between AstraZeneca vaccine and rare blood clotting, Al Sharq Al Awsat reported on Saturday.

He asserted that there is no scientific proof for AstraZeneca's blood clotting side effects, however, all issued reports regarding this issue are based on statistics only.

Next, the expert revealed that Oxford team is completely assured that the vaccine is safe. He added that the clinical trials included 60 thousand volunteers from the UK, 24 thousand volunteers from South Africa, and Brazil, and 32 thousand from US without observing any side blood clotting symptoms. In addition, more than 150 million person received the vaccine, only 80 suffered from rare blood clots.

Several European countries restricted the use of the vaccine to be only for people aged more than 55 after reporting a number of deaths of rare brain blood clots.

However, the major European regulator European Medicines Agency (EMA) underscored that the vaccine is safe, before it admitted the blood clotting as one of the vaccine's side effects.