May 02,2024
AstraZeneca, the company that sold the vaccination in India, acknowledged in court a day ago that the Covid injection can have an uncommon side effect. As a result, the parents of the woman who is said to have died after taking the vaccine have chosen to sue Serum Institute of India (SII). With the revelation of AstraZeneca ‘s admission, the parents are optimistic of justice.
The multinational pharmaceutical company is facing legal action from a class-action lawsuit alleging that the Covid-19 vaccine, which it co-developed with the University of Oxford, resulted in fatalities and severe injuries, including thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS), a dangerous side effect that lowers platelet counts and causes blood clots.
Karunya, the daughter of Venugopalan Govindan, passed away in July 2021 following her Covishield vaccination. Nonetheless, the government-appointed national committee found insufficient evidence to draw the conclusion that the vaccine was the cause of her death.
This is the result of AstraZeneca’s admission in court documents that a rare adverse effect of their vaccination could be reduced platelet count and blood clotting. AstraZeneca is being sued in a class-action case in the UK.
The father daughter Karunya, who passed away following the vaccination, Venugopalan Govindan, stated that AstraZeneca’s admission is “too late” and that it comes too late in the aftermath of so many lives lost. “AstraZeneca and SII should have stopped the manufacture and supply of these vaccines when 15 European countries either suspended or age-limited these due to deaths from blood clots that happened in March 2021, within a couple of months of the rollout of the vaccine itself.”
In their writ petition, the parents are requesting restitution, the appointment of an impartial medical board to look into their daughter’s death as soon as possible, and access to the investigation’s findings.
SII stated that they “won’t be commenting on this matter” when questioned.
AstraZeneca reportedly acknowledged that the Covid vaccination “may, in very rare cases, cause TTS” in a court filing.
“In spite of the uncommon risk of TTS, Covishield, which was used to vaccinate 90% of India’s population, has done well in India,” a senior member of the Covid working group told ET, downplaying worries of unfavorable outcomes.
Experts also emphasized how much immunization can do to lessen the effects of the illness.
According to Govindan, the government and the vaccine’s maker marketed the Covid shots as “safe and effective” across the country at great financial expense without providing enough evidence. According to him, they decided not to halt the rollout or at the very least raise awareness within the medical community and public about the unfavorable events as data from all over the world started to surface. “The regulatory bodies that approved it and subsequently didn’t intervene to stop it when data emerged about the dangers, are all culpable in the death of my daughter and countless others who have died after taking this so-called vaccine,” he claimed.
Until the very end, he said, the current cases. “If sufficient remedies aren’t obtained, for the sake of justice and to prevent recurrence of this atrocity that was perpetrated in the name of public health, we will file fresh cases against any and all of those perpetrators because of whose actions the deaths of our children ensued,” he stated.
Source: TOI