Here is the real data on Pfizer and Astrazeneca adverse reactions in the UK
Pierpaolo Pellicori, cardiologist and researcher at the hospital of the University of Glasgow, sent the data recorded in the United Kingdom on the adverse reactions of AstraZeneca and Pfizer to his Italian colleagues
I am giving readers a WhatsApp that my niece, a heart surgeon in the main hospital in Bergamo, sent to colleagues, friends and relatives to reassure them about the safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine . The author of the text is his colleague, Pierpaolo Pellicori, a cardiologist and researcher at the hospital of the University of Glasgow. After the four-day blockade of the AstraZeneca vaccine in Italy, Germany, France and Spain, on 16 March Pellicori sent to his Italian colleagues the data recorded in the United Kingdom (UK) on the adverse reactions of
AstraZeneca and Pfizer.
Textual: «Up to February 28, 2021 approximately 10, 7 million Pfizer doses and 9.7 million AstraZeneca doses have been administered in the UK. Among the adverse events reported in the days following vaccination, there were: heart attack AZ 36 (17 fatal), Pfizer 30 (6 fatal); stroke AZ 71 (10 fatal), Pfizer 100 (10 fatal); pulmonary embolism AZ 13 (1 fatal), Pfizer 15 (1 fatal); venous thrombosis AZ 14 (zero fatal), Pfizer 8 (zero fatal); low platelets (thrombocytopenia) AZ 35 (1 fatal), Pfizer 22 (1 fatal). Dead AZ 275, Pfizer 227.
Basically, similar data for both vaccines, which erase the image of a series B vaccine attributed to AstraZeneca in Italy by journalists and virology from the TV lounge.
Pellicori explains: »Although the absolute number of adverse events may seem high, the probabilities of these occurring are minimal (0.000 something in percentage), in line with those expected for this type of population. As someone said, the vaccine doesn't make you immortal. Furthermore, there is no link between these events and the vaccine. The UK vaccination campaign, which continues apace, is accompanied by a steady decline in hospitalizations and deaths due to Covid, and by the feeling that we can soon return to a normal life ».
Dr Pellicori continues: «An important thing, which should be repeated every day, is that both vaccines are highly effective in preventing Covid hospitalizations. After four weeks, Pfizer reduced them by 85%, AstraZeneca by 94% ”.
Further on: «Today in the UK the schools are finally reopening, the days continue to get longer and it will probably rain. The daily cases were 5,089 (out of almost a million swabs), 64 deaths (125,580 since the beginning of the pandemic). Today in Italy: red zone. Daily Covid cases 15,267 (out of less than 179,000 swabs) and 354 deaths (102,499 since the beginning of the pandemic ".
Following these Italian data, Pellicori formulates a forecast; "Of these 15 thousand daily cases, more than a thousand will be hospitalized in the next two weeks and will develop various complications affecting the heart, arteries and veins: cardiovascular complications very common in patients with Covid: 80 out of a thousand an arrhythmia, 70 out of a thousand one thrombosis, 70 out of a thousand heart failure, 10-20 out of a thousand a heart attack or stroke ".
"Having all these patients in hospital means that doctors and nurses cannot guarantee the necessary diagnosis and treatment for those who have a problem other than Covid, and we will pay the bill in the years to come. There is only one way to get out of it quickly and save lives: keep calm and quickly vaccinate as many people as possible ».
Conclusion: «I hope that reading these data will help to give hope and confidence in a moment of confusion and general panic.» Thanks Dr. Pelicori: I too was doubtful about AstraZeneca, as I wrote a few days ago. Now no longer.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/pfizer-astrazeneca-regno-unito/ on Sun, 28 Mar 2021 06:00:55 +0000.