How to deal with vaccine crisis?

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The EMA, you know the body all EU countries agreed to follow, wait another month or two for a higher quality approval, has clearly stated that there is no evidence that the vaccine causes blood clots any more than the normal occurrence in the population.

In other words if someone has blood clot issues with the vaccine, they already had the issue and any cold or virus would have triggered the response.

In many ways, people suffering blood clots are safer getting the vaccine because the medical teams will now be looking for this impact. Whereas to have a serious cold at home and move the blood clot could be deadly.

But never let it be said that any potential crisis should be missed for the politicians. France is still struggling to vaccinate the over 75's. We know because Mrs S asked the pharmacist yesterday about the availability. The nurse, who was in the house at the time, said it is now a total nightmare with some French refusing Pfizer and others refusing AZ, all because of political irresponsibility.

This whole mess is far from over. Now that politicians have the wonderful excuse of "bad vaccines", to cover their shambolic rollout., supposed to be the centrepiece of EU unity, they are not going to let it go.

This has had knock on effects with the likes of Thailand pausing the AZ rollout due to so many EU countries doing so.

Meanwhile the UK gets on with saving lives. Because that is more important, in the grand scheme of things, than playing political vaccine games.