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by Robin MILLARD Agence France Presse A link between AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 jabs and blood clots is plausible but unconfirmed, the World Health Organization’s vaccine experts said Wednesday, stressing that reported occurrences were “very rare”. The statement came after the EU’s EMA drug regulator said earlier in the day that blood clots should now be listed as a “very rare” side effect of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine. But the jab’s benefits continue to outweigh the […]
Task Force to lead efforts to determine if variant B.1.1.7 has already entered PHL (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte directed the creation of another Task Force, this time, composed of medical experts and scientists directed at studying the new emerging COVID-19 virus strains or variants that are said to be more infectious than before. In his meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) Saturday night, Dec. 26, Duterte observed […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Health on Wednesday, May 8, welcomed President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to tap the expertise of a three-man panel of Asian experts in order to look into Dengvaxia safety concerns. “We welcome the policy statement of the President to invite foreign experts from neighboring (Association of Southeast Asian) countries. This is a directive that must be respected and fully complied with,” Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said in a statement. […]
