Matt Hancock said that the Government wants to be “completely open and transparent” about vaccines when asked aboyt how many people have died after having a jab.
Conservative MP William Wragg (Hazel Grove) said: “Does the NHS have data to suggest how many people have sadly died from Covid in NHS hospitals three weeks after receiving their first dose of the Covid vaccine?”
Mr Hancock responded: “The data on the impact of the vaccine, including side effects from the vaccine and including when sadly people die after having had the vaccine, which is rare.
“These data are published by the MHRA and if there’s any data in this area that are not published, but he would like to publish, then if he writes to me I’d be very happy to look into publishing those further data.
“Because essentially we’ve taken the attitude of being as transparent as possible because there are side effects to vaccine, as there are to all pharmaceutical drugs, and we want to be completely open and transparent about those essentially to reassure people that the risks are extremely low.”
