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🗓️ 9 November 2023
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In January 2021, the first Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccines made their way into people’s arms. By mid-march, 11 million people had received the jab.
After successive lockdowns, it felt like a way out.
But now, more than two years on, storm clouds are gathering.
Today, 80 of them are preparing to sue Astrazeneca. They say that until now, no one has wanted to hear their stories. So we’re telling them.
Find out more: ‘We were told the vaccine was safe - but what happened has been life-changing’
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0:00.0 | This is the Oxford University Hospital and let me introduce you to Brian Pinker. |
0:06.3 | On the 4th of January 2021, we all watched the first people getting the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine. |
0:13.0 | Now he became the very first person to be vaccinated. |
0:15.8 | To be honest, I didn't feel a thing. |
0:17.6 | It felt like a glimmer of hope. |
0:20.4 | To my mind, it's the only way I get them back to a bit of normal life. |
0:25.0 | It works, it's been signed off, it's safe and effective. |
0:29.0 | And a source of national pride. |
0:31.0 | And so the Prime Minister was the first person I saw and I walked into the cabinet room and before the meeting even started I said we've got our jab. |
0:40.0 | But more than two years on, storm clouds have started together. Papers have been lodged in court, |
0:46.2 | and the jab has been dropped by the government altogether. It's still hailed in many ways |
0:51.9 | as a fantastic vaccine, one that has undoubtedly saved millions of lives. |
0:57.0 | But for at least 140 people who had the Oxford AstraZeneca jab, |
1:02.0 | the consequences were catastrophic. |
1:06.4 | to watch this healthy loving man being taken out in a black body back from your home. But in the context of a global pandemic, some of those affected felt forced into the shadows. |
1:20.0 | We're not anti-vax. This is what I hate. Neil wouldn't have gone for that vaccination. |
1:26.6 | I don't think you can call anyone who's got a vaccine injury or died because of a vaccine, |
1:31.0 | anti-vax because they obviously took the vaccine that they were told to take. |
1:34.0 | Some people felt like no one wanted to hear about them. |
1:38.0 | You know, there was not much on these vaccine deaths. |
1:41.0 | We've trapped ourselves in this binary world where it's either |
1:43.7 | pro vaccine or anti vaccine and that's not how the world works. It felt like we were just being |
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