AstraZeneca

Vaxx Populi: Researchers are getting faster at recognizing, diagnosing and treating VITT, and there is hope that they’re zeroing in on what causes it

Vaxx Populi: If you got a first dose of AstraZeneca, you can choose to get an mRNA vaccine for your second dose. Pfizer and Moderna will also be interchangeable as second doses.

Vaxx Populi: The four-month interval between doses is ticking away for Canadians, while new research is emerging about the optimal time to wait

Vaxx Populi: Ontario and Alberta have stopped giving first doses of AstraZeneca. What does that mean for those who’ve already had one?

Shannon Proudfoot: From a television appearance by NACI’s chair to a confounding response by the health minister, confidence in COVID vaccines took a beating

Vaxx Populi: NACI described mRNA vaccines as "preferred," but the protection all vaccines—including AstraZeneca—offer from COVID is ’immensely higher’ than the risk of blood clots

Vaxx Populi: Some research has found more side effects after one dose of AstraZeneca than of Pfizer. But there’s no evidence that a stronger reaction means stronger immunity.

An alchemy involving copious free time, a car and loads of social capital—adding up to a terrible way to get jabs into the arms that need them most

Shannon Proudfoot: There are lots of ways to get the AZ shot in Ontario’s crazy vaccine system. Being the most deserving candidate isn’t one of them.

Vaxx Populi: Health Canada reaffirmed its confidence in AstraZeneca but doses were at risk of going to waste as those 55 and older avoided the vaccine