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EU agency: AstraZeneca vaccine safe, will add clot warning

by Frank JordansMaria Cheng
| March 18, 2021 10:06 AM

LONDON (AP) — The European Union's drug regulatory agency said Thursday that the AstraZeneca vaccine doesn't increase the overall incidence of blood clots and that the benefits of using it outweigh the possible risks, paving the way for European countries to resume dispensing the shots.

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