An AstraZeneca vaccine (illustrative image).

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Faced with the doubts surrounding the AstraZeneca vaccine, the French Medicines Agency (ANSM) formally recommends this Friday to continue the vaccination.

Some countries have temporarily suspended it due to bleeding disorders, including a case in France, without any established link with the injection.

The day before, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran had already considered that there was no reason to suspend this vaccine in the country.

France has identified and analyzed "a case of multiple thromboses (blood clots)" in the context of "disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)" (which may occur for example during an infection or cancer), indicates Friday the ANSM in a point on the surveillance of anti-Covid vaccines.

A European investigation underway

"There is nothing to conclude that this effect is related to the vaccine" AstraZeneca, assures the French health agency.

The ANSM emphasizes that with the French network of regional pharmacovigilance centers (CRPV), it pays "particular attention to these thromboembolic events".

An in-depth investigation by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is also underway.

The latter said Wednesday to have identified "30 cases in Europe among 5 million people vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine".

Moderna and Pfizer under surveillance

The EMA added that the number of cases of these disorders is "not higher in vaccinated patients than the number observed in the general population".

Noting that currently there is "no indication" that the vaccination has caused these disorders, the European regulator recommended continuing vaccination with the AstraZeneca vaccine.

The ANSM “shares” this recommendation, while indicating that new data could lead it to revise this position.

The health agency also notes that “to date, there is no safety signal with the Moderna vaccine”.

For BioNTech-Pfizer, it suggests a “signal potential” with the occurrence, after the 2nd dose, of “a recurrence of thrombocytopenia”, a decrease in platelets which are blood cells playing an essential role in coagulation.

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