OUR medicines watchdog has blamed ‘missing information’ for its
failure to act on early reports of potentially fatal side effects to
AstraZeneca’s covid vaccine. It did not mention that it rarely followed
up victims, or contacted their GPs, to ask for the missing information
it needed.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), run
by Dame June Raine during covid, has been criticised by Conservative
former minister Esther McVey, who said the agency should be reformed. It
is too late for many who struggled to get any meaningful response after
reporting their injuries to the MHRA’s not-fit-for-purpose early
warning Yellow Card Scheme.
Former BBC radio presenter Jules Serkin, 66, suffered a life-changing
adverse reaction to her one and only AstraZeneca jab received on March
5, 2021. Had our health chiefs taken vaccine injury seriously, her
injury may have been prevented, and she may have been able to get help.
Last week she updated the MHRA telling them: ‘Nearly four years on, I
am still suffering the neurological effects caused by batch number
PV46671. This one jab has ruined my life and health. Since my initial
report to you in 2021, I have thought I would die many times.
‘I suffer extreme pains in my head, lightning strikes in my head and
eyes. My left eye is especially scary. The brow is drooped and the NHS
had to lift my eyelids as I could not see properly. The symptoms mimic a
stroke, but A&E in my local hospital in Ashford, Kent, is so
inundated I waited 21 hours in a chair as they wanted to admit me. They
had no beds and no access to an MRI scan so now I stay at home during a
vax attack and pray I won’t die.’
I first reported on the MHRA’s shambolic system for
TCW in May 2021, highlighting that they received reports of no more
than 10 per cent of injuries and that the public and many health
professionals were unaware of the Yellow Card Scheme. Doctors and nurses
were already voicing concerns.
A senior NHS board member said: ‘I know that the Yellow Card
reporting system is not reflective of the amount of adverse events that
are actually happening. I know of a patient who reported their extreme
adverse event side effect to a nurse, and that nurse did not report it
to the Yellow Card reporting system. People are told that their adverse events are normal. It is not normal to have to stay in bed for two days after a vaccine.’...<<<Read More>>>...