The World Health Organization has recommended countries to continue using the AstraZeneca vaccine, despite growing concerns about some thromboembolic events detected in people who have received the serum. WHO expert Soumya Swaminathan said UN health agency officials “don’t want people to panic” even as close monitoring of vaccine use continues.
Swaminathan noted that some 300 million doses of a variety of coronavirus vaccines have been administered to people around the world and that “there is no documented death that has been linked to a Covid-19 vaccine.”
The rates at which thromboembolic events occurred in people who received the AstraZeneca vaccine, according to the expert, “are actually lower than would be expected from the general population.”