| 18/04/2021 – 14:19 (GMT-4)
Dutch coronavirus-infected Dutchman finds himself fighting for his life in the intensive care unit of a Dutch hospital after rejecting AstraZeneca vaccine.
Connected to assisted breathing and with severe lung damage, this patient who refused to be immunized with the British pharmaceutical vaccine for fear of developing blood clotting (thrombi), has become a sad example with which Dutch doctors want to create awareness of the need to be vaccinated.
“Today [el pasado viernes] the first patient who had refused to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine after all the commotion in the press was admitted to our hospital. We feel great sorrow in his voice and despair in his eyes. The virus has attacked it and could have been avoided, “health officials warned in an open letter to incumbent Health Minister Hugo de Jonge.
Accompanied by an x-ray of the patient’s lungs, the letter criticizes the paralysis of Janssen’s use and the age limitations imposed on AstraZeneca’s use. “With your permission, we share your lung scanner. You don’t need to be a lung specialist to recognize the devastation, or an epidemiologist to explain the risks of not being vaccinated,” says the letter calling for all vaccines to be used. available.
The Netherlands has 80,000 doses of Janssen stored pending a scientific recommendation from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on its safety and possible relationship with six cases of unusual blood clotting in the United States, unique country that has already used this single-dose vaccine, as published the Vanguard.
After the EMA issued a warning about an “possible link” of AstraZeneca with dozens of cases of thromboembolism very rare in people who received the injection, the Netherlands made the decision to immunize only people over 60 with this vaccine.
Although case studies indicate a lower risk of thrombosis in people over the age of 60 who have been vaccinated with AstraZeneca, the debates that have sparked the EMA alert – and the repercussions it has had in the media – have diminished the confidence of the Dutch. According to a survey, 42% of those over 60 still unvaccinated in the Netherlands refused to get this vaccine.
“The risk of serious damage caused by COVID-19 is ten times higher for people aged 40 and 70 times higher for people aged 60, than the risk of serious damage due to thrombosis [provocada por la vacuna]”The signatories of the letter, Zuyderland Medical Center employees, were concerned about the third-wave figures they are suffering.
“So far, we have cared for more than 3,000 coronavirus patients, and while (you) talk to experts about reopening society to offer perspective, we still see the tremendous consequences of this disease on a daily basis,” they complained. in the letter to the Minister.
“The figures show that the benefits of mass vaccination are overwhelming and do not lie … Employees [del hospital] they legitimately wonder why they should continue to provide care without adequate protection, while vaccines wait in the fridge, ”denounced these doctors demanding that the minister stop delaying vaccination and raise awareness about its benefits in the population.
“We let people choose if they want to avoid a situation like our patient’s,” Dutch doctors proposed, advocating for “voluntary vaccination based on informed consent” and making all existing certified vaccines available. , whether “AstraZeneca, Janssen or any other vaccine.”
Tired of seeing that the epidemiological situation is not evolving favorably, doctors concluded their missive by threatening to use the doses of AstraZeneca they have in the refrigerators in vaccinating hospital employees and doctors.
As of Monday, with the permission of the authorities or not, these doctors declared themselves willing to carry out their purposes and warned that they no longer “should cooperate voluntarily and consciously with preventable harm” through vaccination.