OSLO — Norway should exclude the COVID-19 vaccines made by AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson from its inoculation program due to a risk of rare but harmful side-effects, a government-appointed commission said on Monday.
Those who volunteer to take either vaccines should however be allowed to do so, a majority of the commission said, as it emphasized the importance of dispelling any vaccine hesitancy.
Norway suspended the AstraZeneca vaccine rollout on March 11 after a small number of younger inoculated people were hospitalized for a combination of blood clots, bleeding and a low platelet count, some of whom later died.
On April 15, the Norwegian Institute of Public Hea…
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