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That’s just not true. Several countries stopped using the vaccine until more data was available. For example in Germany. And then when the vaccine was used again it was only used on a subset of the population (older people because this risk was minimal in those cases). It was discussed at the highest level and all throughout the country.

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Exactly, there was and is no mystery. It’s right there in the EU’s insert.

https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/vaxzevria-...

It depended your your location and circle.

I'm my experience, in California/USA there was strong political denial of anything possibly negative about the vaccines.

Public health authorities were proclaiming that there were no possible side effects, even as other countries were restricting demographics and discontinuing use.

> Public health authorities were proclaiming that there were no possible side effects, even as other countries were restricting demographics and discontinuing use.

If we're talking about the Astrazeneca vaccine in particular in this subthread, with its clotting side effects-- it's worth noting that it never received a US EUA. It's not surprising that US agencies never restricted its use, having never authorized its use in the first place.

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