Ad AstraZeneca
What A Day
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🗓️ 19 March 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
European countries including Germany, France, Italy, and Spain will resume using the AstraZeneca vaccine as early as today or next week. This comes the European Medicines Agency found no increased risk of blood clots among millions of vaccinations. The Biden administration announced plans to do "vaccine diplomacy" by sending millions of AstraZeneca doses to Canada and Mexico.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, March 19th. I'm Keela Hughes. |
| 0:08.7 | And I'm Gideon Ressick and this is what a day also known as Zack Snyder's What A Day. |
| 0:12.7 | Yeah, this is the Snyder Cut of Today's episode. The original was only a minute long. |
| 0:16.4 | Jared Leto is here and while he's freaking everybody out, as usual. |
| 0:20.1 | On Today's show, more on the situation in Georgia and the laws around hate crimes, |
| 0:29.9 | Ben Smith headlines. |
| 0:30.8 | But first the latest. |
| 0:33.0 | The committee has come to a clear scientific conclusion. This is a safe and effective vaccine. |
| 0:40.0 | It's benefits in protecting people from COVID-19 with the associated risks of death and |
| 0:46.0 | hospitalization outweigh the possible risks. That was the head of the European |
| 0:51.2 | Medicines Agency talking about the AstraZeneca vaccine yesterday. Earlier this week, |
| 0:55.6 | several European countries suspended the use of the vaccine due to isolated reports of blood |
| 0:59.6 | clots. So Gideon, what does this announcement from the EMA mean? |
| 1:02.8 | It is a tricky situation over there. So the pauses came as several countries in Europe |
| 1:07.2 | are dealing with a new surge of cases. So there was a lot of urgency in figuring this out |
| 1:11.6 | really quickly. And now the EMA has repeated their stance that the vaccine is safe as we heard |
| 1:16.5 | there. But reportedly, they're also going to add a warning label to the shot so that the medical |
| 1:21.0 | community can be on the lookout for potential rare complications. They basically reviewed |
| 1:25.5 | millions of cases they said and found that there was not an increased risk of the clots. |
| 1:29.5 | But this appears to be a precautionary measure given that some of the cases were deadly. |
| 1:33.3 | They did confirm a small amount of the dangerous cases, though it's not conclusive whether |
| 1:38.0 | they were actually related to the vaccine. Okay, so how are the countries responding to that |
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