Fauci Addresses the Safety of the AstraZeneca Vaccine Dr. Anthony S. Fauci on Monday discussed the U.S. clinical trial that ruled the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca effective against Covid-19. The vaccine hesitancy surrounding AZ related to reports from the European group that there was a greater incidence of thromboembolic events associated with the vaccine — during this trial here, there was no indication at all. When you look at the occurrence of what could appear to be an adverse event, that you essentially compare that and to what the background of that type of event would be anyway in society, and the European Medicines Agency, the E.M.A., indicated in their examination that they did not see an increased risk of these types of events. The F.D.A. is going to very, very carefully go over all of these data. There will be an application for an EUA. And I […]