18/04/2021 – 2:19 PM (GMT-4)
A Dutch patient infected with the coronavirus is fighting for his life in the intensive care salt of a Dutch hospital after you have declined the AstraZeneca vaccine
Associated with assisted breathing and severe lung disease, this patient who refused to be immunized with the British pharmaceutical vaccine for fear of developing blood clotting (thrombi) has become a sad example of how Dutch doctors want to raise awareness about the need to get vaccinated.
“Today [el pasado viernes] The first patient to have refused the AstraZeneca vaccine was admitted to our hospital after all the commotion in the press. We hear the enormous regret in his voice and the despair in his eyes. The virus has attacked it and it could have been prevented, ”warned health workers in an open letter addressed to acting Minister of Health Hugo de Jonge.
Accompanied by an X-ray of the patient’s lungs, the critical letter on how to stop using Janssen and the age restrictions on AstraZeneca use. “We share your lung scan with your permission. There is no need to be a pulmonologist to recognize the devastation, or an epidemiologist to explain the risks of non-vaccination, ”says the letter calling for the use of all available vaccines.
The Netherlands has 80,000 doses of Janssen in storage 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, the only country that has already used this vaccine. dose, as published The vanguard
After the EMA launched a warning about a “possible link” of AstraZeneca with dozens of cases of very rare thromboembolism in people who received the injection, the Netherlands has decided to only immunize people over 60 years with this vaccine.
Despite the fact that case studies point to a lower risk of developing thrombi in people over 60 years of age vaccinated with AstraZeneca, the debates that sparked the EMA warning – and the impact it has had in the media – the confidence of the Dutch diminished. According to a study, 42% of the non-vaccinated people over 60 in the Netherlands refused to receive this vaccine.
“The risk of serious damage from COVID-19 is ten times greater for people in their 40s and 70 times greater for people in their 60s than the risk of serious damage from thrombosis. [provocada por la vacuna]The signatories of the letter reported, the employees of the Zuyderland Medical Center were concerned about the figures of the third wave they are going through.
“So far we have treated more than 3,000 patients with coronavirus and while (you) speak to experts about reopening society to provide perspective, we are still seeing the tremendous impact of this disease on a daily basis,” these health professionals complained in the letter. . addressed to the minister.
“The numbers show that the benefits of mass vaccination are overwhelming and don’t lie … Workers [del hospital] they rightly wonder why they should continue to provide care without adequate protection while the vaccines wait in the refrigerator, ”denounced these doctors who demand that the minister stop delaying vaccination and make the population aware of its benefits.
“Let people choose whether to avoid a situation like our patient’s,” suggested the Dutch doctors, who argued for “voluntary informed consent vaccination” and making all existing certified vaccines available, “AstraZeneca, Janssen or any other “. vaccine.”
Tired of seeing the epidemiological situation not evolving favorably, the doctors closed their letter by threatening to use the doses of AstraZeneca they have in the refrigerators to vaccinate the hospital’s employees and doctors.
As of Monday, these doctors, with or without permission from the authorities, declared their willingness to carry out their goals and warned that they will no longer “voluntarily and knowingly cooperate in avoidable harm” from vaccination.