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News Articles: AstraZeneca

Covishield is the brand name used for the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured in India's Serum Institute, administered to millions of people, mostly in low- and middle-income countries. It's not on the list of approved vaccines for the European Union — although the AstraZeneca version made in the United Kingdom and at European sites is.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: I'm Nigerian. I'm Vaccinated. Europe Won't Let Me In

Europe lists four approved vaccines for travelers. There's an omission that makes Nigerian physician Ifeanyi Nsofor feel invisible — and disappointed.

June 30, 2021
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By:
  • Ifeanyi Nsofor
Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization is recommending allowing people to mix COVID-19 vaccine doses. Here, people walk past a vaccination clinic this week in Toronto.

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  • Health

Want To Mix 2 Different COVID-19 Vaccines? Canada Is Fine With That

As of late May, 50.6% of Canada's population had received at least one vaccination shot — but only 4.6% of the population was fully vaccinated.

June 04, 2021
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
From left: A New Delhi woman waits in an observation room after getting the Covishield vaccine (the name used for the AstraZeneca vaccine in India) on May 26. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves a vaccination center after his first AstraZeneca dose on March 19. On March 9, Nairobi, Kenya, began vaccinating groups, including health care workers and older people, with the AstraZeneca vaccine.

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  • Global Health

AstraZeneca's Rocky Rollout: The Woes Of The 'Vaccine For The World'

Oxford-AstraZeneca promised its COVID-19 vaccine would be effective, cheap and available worldwide. Five months after its launch, the path forward has been anything but smooth.

June 01, 2021
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By:
  • Jason Beaubien
Danish health authorities announced Wednesday that the country will continue its COVID-19 vaccine rollout without the shot made by AstraZeneca, citing its possible link to rare blood clotting events, the availability of other vaccines and the "fact that the COVID-19 epidemic in Denmark is currently under control."

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  • Europe

Denmark Drops AstraZeneca Vaccine, Citing Rare Side Effects, Epidemic 'Under Control'

The Danish Health Authority said it will continue its vaccination campaign without the shot made by AstraZeneca, but said its benefits outweigh the risks for those who do get it.

April 15, 2021
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
A scientist works on COVID-19 samples to find variations of the virus at the Croix-Rousse Hospital laboratory in Lyon, France, in January.

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  • Global Health

Can Vaccines Stop Variants? Here's What We Know So Far

One of the hottest areas of research right now: studies to determine how well current vaccines work against emerging coronavirus "variants of concern."

April 12, 2021
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By:
  • Nurith Aizenman
The European Union's drug regulator on Wednesday announced its findings into the possible connection between AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine and rare blood clots.

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  • Health

EU Regulator: AstraZeneca Vaccine Effective; Blood Clots May Be A Rare Side Effect

The European Medicines Agency said Wednesday that blood clots should be listed as a possible but rare side effect of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, stressing the shot's benefits outweigh the risks.

April 07, 2021
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Vials of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine are pictured at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego in December. Mexicans have gone to California, Florida and other states seeking vaccines as their country has struggled to roll them out.

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  • Latin America

Some Mexicans Travel To U.S. For COVID Vaccines As Their Country's Rollout Stumbles

Some Mexicans with family ties or dual citizenship in the U.S., or who can afford the airfare, head north of the border to get vaccinated faster than the months of waiting for one back home.

March 26, 2021
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  • Carrie Kahn
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, with Bavaria's State Premier Markus Soeder (right) and Berlin's Mayor Michael Mueller, participate in a news conference following talks via videoconference with Germany's state premiers on the extension of the current COVID-19 lockdown in Germany.

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  • Europe

'Basically In A New Pandemic,' Says Merkel, As Germany Extends Lockdown

The German chancellor announces an intensified coronavirus lockdown going into Easter, warning that new mutations raise the specter of a potentially deadly "third wave" of COVID-19.

March 23, 2021
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  • Scott Neuman
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said concerns were raised with the information released by AstraZeneca on initial clinical trial data.

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  • National

AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Data Questioned By Safety Board

In an unusual post-midnight statement, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said AstraZeneca might have used old data for its COVID-19 vaccine trial.

March 23, 2021
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
A woman lines up to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine in Mexico City on Feb. 17.

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  • Politics

Biden Takes First Jab At Vaccine Diplomacy, Sharing Doses With Mexico, Canada

The United States will loan millions of doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine — not yet approved for emergency U.S. use — to its closest neighbors.

March 19, 2021
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By:
  • Tamara Keith
A technician waits to collect vials containing vaccine after they pass through a machine that checks for bottling and vaccine substance deficiencies.

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  • Health

The World's Largest Vaccine Maker Took A Multimillion Dollar Pandemic Gamble

NPR tours the factory of the world's largest vaccine maker: Serum Institute of India. It's manufacturing nearly 100 million doses a month of the Oxford-AstraZeneca formula and exporting them globally.

March 18, 2021
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  • Lauren Frayer
Dr. Sabine Straus, chair of the European Medicines Agency's Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee, said Thursday that the committee had concluded there is no increase in the overall risk of blood clots with the AstraZeneca vaccine.

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  • Europe

European Medicines Agency Finds AstraZeneca Vaccine Safe And Effective

"Its benefits continue to be far greater than its risks," said Dr. Sabine Straus of the agency's risk committee. It found no increase in the overall risk of blood clots with the vaccine.

March 18, 2021
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By:
  • Laurel Wamsley
Several European nations have suspended the administration of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine following reports of blood clotting in some patients.

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  • Europe

Sweden, Venezuela Are Latest Countries To Question AstraZeneca Vaccine

Several other countries including France, Germany, the Netherlands and Ireland moved to suspend injections of the vaccine this week.

March 16, 2021
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
A pharmacist prepares to administer the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at a community vaccination center in London on Friday.

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  • World

France And Germany Pause Use Of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 Vaccine

The two countries joined a number of other European nations that have temporarily suspended the shot after several people reportedly developed blood clots after receiving it.

March 15, 2021
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By:
  • Jon Hamilton,
  • Jaclyn Diaz,
  • and 1 more

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  • Global Health

Price Check: Nations Pay Wildly Different Prices For Vaccines

The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago gave an impassioned speech about the vaccine rollout, warning of hoarding and price gouging. Here's what we could find out about the cost of a dose.

February 20, 2021
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  • Jason Beaubien
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