well let's go live now to microbiologist simon clark of reading university thanks for joining us again to have you on the program today. what do you think the company overestimated this vaccine's effectiveness mean how do you think this could have happened. but it's a fundamental tenet in science that you don't pick and choose which data you present but it appears that for some reason that's what's happened and we don't know why they. but it. always raises suspicions when people try to ignore the data that's perhaps not so good in favor of the day to day so we should remember that it's only a week said difference with mild moderate disease and no difference at all for them a serious life threatening condition. but like i say it should not have happened. it's a very small difference as you say but do you think this this reduction in effectiveness and the surrounding comments from the u.s. medical again later could affect the company's reputation either on the market or in some of other factors well that's possible confidence in the vaccine itself because not everybody and i would say re

well let's get more now from simon clark he's not associate professor of cellular microbiology at university of reading and joins us from there great to have you with us on the news our 1st of us president with face big d t welcome this move by facebook to. also massively label all posts about vaccines you think it will help. but really i mean something needs to be done because there is a lot of actually mentioned right across the world. more so in some countries than others but of course social media in particular facebook is where a lot of people get their news from these days so i think. while we have the possibility of. fake news regards right actually appearing up on platforms like facebook it's incumbent upon the the owners of that platform to take steps to to people that what they might be reading isn't necessarily correct i think the problem is a misinformation on social media when it comes to vaccine uptake. well in the u.k. there does seem to be a problem with some people with some communities and facebook is just one of the on the rest of social media i should say as well as just

microbiologist simon clarke told us such data revisions could hit confidence in the pharmaceutical giant and it's shot. a mental tenet in science that you don't pick and choose which states that you cresent but it appears that for some reason that's what's happening and we don't know why they found that but it is always raises suspicions when people try to ignore the data that's perhaps not so good in favor of the day to day so we should remember that it's only a 3 percent difference for mild to moderate disease and no difference at all for the most serious life threatening conditions not everybody and i would say relatively few people pick up on the fact that the difference is small they pick up on the fact that there is a difference and that astra zeneca have essentially been accused of cherry picking data so that's what people will hear and it affects confidence it may put confidence in the company and i think it's highly likely that it will. cause people to question the efficacy of the vaccine. a schoolteacher in northern england has been suspended after showing people's a cartoon of

regulators forced astra zeneca to admit its vaccine was less effective than it claimed microbiologist simon clark told us it will hit confidence in the pharmaceutical giant. fundamental tenet in science that you don't pick and choose which day to you chris but it appears that for some reason that's what's happened we don't know why they found that but it. always raises suspicions when people try to ignore the data gets perhaps not so good in favor of good data that is that we should remember that it's only a 3 percent difference for mild moderate and no difference at all for the most serious life threatening conditions not everybody and i would say relatively few people pick up on the fact that the difference is small they pick up on the fact there is a difference and that astra zeneca have essentially been accused of cherry picking data so that's what people hear is a confidence it may put confidence in the company and i think it's highly likely that it will. cause people to question the efficacy of the vaccine. meanwhile several e.u. states such as germany are waiting for the lox medicines watc

organization facebook's faced criticism for allowing false claims to spread during the pandemic here is simon clark who is an associate professor of cellular microbiology who says companies producing these vaccines should also step up their efforts to combat misinformation on social media. across social media and in particular facebook is where a lot of people get their news from these days so i think while we have the possibility . of fake news with regards to the vaccine appearing on platforms like facebook it's incumbent upon the the owners of that platform to take steps to to warn people that what they might be reading isn't necessarily correct we hear. they think that the chance of increased blood clotting after vaccination. blood clots happen in people normally and really the numbers that we have at the moment as far as we know suggest they're no more common in the vaccinated population and they are in the un vaccinated population if regulators are seeing something unusual a lot of concern they really do need to be a bit more forward a bit more honest about what it is that the problem that th

simon clarke an associate professor in cell a backhoe biology of the university of reading welcome to all jeffrey now we're waiting to hear from the european medicines agency about the findings of this particular case but they seem to be indicating that they might be in favor of resuming the vaccinations particular when they say that the overall numbers of the. cases related to the from will in balik. events that we had so far do not seem to be a concern. that's right it will be a sleepless night for many but we are right now expecting the european medicines agency to report that there is not a greater number of cases among those who've been vaccinated with the astra zeneca vaccine then we would expect in the general population. in iraq 0 vaccination campaign has been. going on normally over the last few weeks has been fine criticised by the international community as doing well but people are now pretty much concerned particularly november is and has been using astra zeneca vaccine well actually in morocco i think thank you for the question has risen we have almost like 5000000 peopl

arlette now across live to us simon clarke associate professor of so the microbiology at the university of reading thank you for joining us here on our team today a growing list of countries are suspending the astra zeneca job are they right to be cautious or perhaps are they overreact. afternoon well it's always right. national helpful torches keep their eye on what's going on. take careful look at any potential side effects but it has to be remember that monks in general population every day they will people there will be people who will get blood clots who are unfortunately will die now those regulators do need to keep an eye and see if there's any are jus correlation with people who've had the vaccine nightly but you know some of those people would probably have got i would probably have had blood clots and some of them may have died anyway whether they do vaccinated or not other european medicines agency has said that countries should not be suspending the astra zeneca drug they believe the benefits outweigh the risk what's your assessment. well they may have a point i mean i don't

with all the latest for us from london thank you very much jonah well let's dig into this now with simon clark he's an associate professor in cellular microbiology at the university of reading and he joins us now from there simon i want to start with a question that i'm sure everyone who is watching is wondering does this potentially mean that the vaccine is unsafe. good afternoon no it really doesn't mean that it is potentially unsafe it has been tested widely and there have been no reported problems beyond what you would normally expect with a vaccine. with any that say really the occurrence of these thrombotic events these blood clots is no greater in the vaccinated population than it is in the home vaccinated population so quite why regulators in these countries have taken the decision beyond big screen be cautious is not really clear so let me ask you then if the w.h.o. is insisting it's safe to use but some countries have decided to hold their all out there's a going ahead how should people be reading that are some countries then potentially taking bigger risks than others here well i th

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