.”
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said there was “no evidence” that blood clots are any more likely to occur following vaccination.
They said: “The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine remains both safe and effective, and we urge anybody asked to come forward to receive a vaccine to do so."
It comes after British scientists overwhelming assured there is no certain link between blood clots and the vaccine, and the reported cases could easily be coincidental.
Dr Hilary Jones told Good Morning Britain: "It’s almost certainly a coincidence.
"It’s absolutely right and reassuring that we have got an investigation in place to look at the level of blood clots that have been reported in Norway and Ireland and in all the EU countries and the UK and around the world."
Dr Peter English, a retired consultant in communicable disease control and immediate past chair of the BMA Public Health Medicine Committee, said: “When a vaccine is administered to millions of people, it is inevitable that some adverse events – that would have happened anyway – will happen shortly after vaccination.
“It is most regrettable that countries have stopped vaccination on such 'precautionary' grounds: it risks doing real harm to the goal of vaccinating enough people to slow the spread of the virus, and to end the pandemic.”
DEADLY CLOTS
Blood clots can travel through the body and cause heart attacks, strokes and deadly blockages in the lungs.
The Netherlands also announced its suspension of the AZ jab earlier today, citing a small number of new reports in Denmark and Norway of blood clotting and lowered levels of blood platelets in people aged under 50.
Four people in Norway had been hospitalised for their condition.
At least one death has been reported in Denmark, Austria and Italy.
The first halt of a batch of the AstraZeneca vaccine was announced by Austria on March 8, following the death of a 49-year-old nurse from "severe bleeding disorders" days after receiving it.
But there have been very few details on the patients, including if they had any other risk factors that would have increased their risk of getting a blood clot.
AstraZeneca said it had found no increased risk of blood clots in the 17 million people who had received the jab in Euope when compared with the general population.
Of 17 million, fewer than 40 adults had suffered blood clots, the company said.
The World Health Organization said no causal link had been established between the vaccine and blood clotting.
Source: Read Full Article#86. Join me with Paul Heisterkamp, a Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations solution architect and developer at GWS in Germany.
Paul shares with us his story of a multi-country Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations project for an international automotive parts supplier.
Phasing long-term international enterprise projects.
Adopting an agile approach to ERP.
Dealing with the challenges of remote working.
How they bet on the first version of Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations running in the cloud a couple of years ago, as well as upgrading every six months.
Application life cycle management with Lifecycle Services and Azure DevOps and working with the Microsoft FastTrack team successfully.
Neil Benson: [00:00:00] Welcome to the Amazing Applications podcast for Microsoft business applications creators who want to build Amazing Applications that everyone will love.
Hi, I'm your host Neil Benson. Our goal on this show is to help you slash your project budgets, reduce your delivery timelines, mitigate technical risks, and create amazing agile Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform applications.
Welcome back to the Amazing Applications podcast, or, you know, just welcome if this is your first time. I'm glad you're here.
You'll find show notes for this episode at customery.com/033, where you'll find links to my guest in this episode, as well as resources so you can dive deeper into the topics we cover.
In this episode, I catch up with Paul Heisterkamp. Paul is a Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations solution architect and developer at GWS in Germany.
He's received his first Microsoft MVP award last year and was recently awarded his second FastTrack recognized solution architect award. It seems like after 12 years of working with Dynamics ERP is finally become an overnight success. Congratulations, Paul.
Paul shares with us his story of a multi-country Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations project for an international automotive parts supplier. They've got 1200 users in the first wave of their deployment and 500 in the second to replace in the second wave to replace a legacy in-house ERP application with Dynamics 365 F&O. We discuss phasing long-term international enterprise projects, how they have adopted an agile approach to ERP, dealing with the challenges of remote working, how they bet on the first version of Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations running in the cloud a couple of years ago, as well as upgrading every six months. We also cover application life cycle management with Lifecycle Services and Azure DevOps and working with the Microsoft FastTrack team successfully.
It's great to hear another Dynamics 365 ERP professional share their story. If you'd like to share yours, we'd love to have you on the show. Visit customery.com/guest to find out more about joining me on the Amazing Applications podcast. I can't accept everyone onto the show, but if you don't try, you'll never know.
Just before we catch up with Paul, I'd like to give a quick shout out to some of my friends at Redspire, a Microsoft partner in Glasgow, in Scotland. Congratulations to Lloyd Grose, Brett Davis, Ross McGhee, Kevin Ansell and several more there. They're just a few of the Redspire consultants who completed my Scrum for Microsoft Business Apps course. It's great to see the Redspire team learning Scrum, achieving their Professional Scrum Master certification and applying an agile approach to their customers' Dynamics 365 and Power Platform projects.
Okay. Here's my chat with Paul Heisterkamp.
Paul, welcome to the Amazing Applications podcast. It's great to have you on the show. Thanks for joining us.
Paul Heisterkamp: [00:03:44] Thanks for having me Neil. It's a nice pleasure for me to be here.
Neil Benson: [00:03:48] Paul you have you've achieved an MVP award. You've recently been recognized with the FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect award. And we're going to get into those in a moment. I'm going to ask you to introduce yourself, but first of all, can you tell us what you had for breakfast this morning?
Paul Heisterkamp: [00:04:03] I had some cereals. So to go up to the home office is not that good. If you have too big breakfast. So some cereals.
Neil Benson: [00:04:14] Okay. So you're working from home at the moment.
Paul Heisterkamp: [00:04:16] Yeah.
Neil Benson: [00:04:18] Okay. And what was your first job and how did you get that one?
Paul Heisterkamp: [00:04:22] I started after school with an education of three years. So there's a vacation program in Germany that lasts three years and there I learned to program in C# and yeah that started right after school.
Neil Benson: [00:04:40] So you were a programmer from a very early age.
Paul Heisterkamp: [00:04:43] Yeah. Yeah. So C# is not that native, but yeah.
Neil Benson: [00:04:48] Tell us about your current role.
Paul Heisterkamp: [00:04:50] Yeah. My current role is I'm a solution architect at the GWS in Germany. And I'm designing and driving projects with Dynamics Finance and Operations. That role I started in 2011.
Neil Benson: [00:05:10] How have you found it working from home over the last period?
Paul Heisterkamp: [00:05:12] Yeah. One and a half year. I think it is now. I feel quite comfortable with it, but this is more because my wife is currently on parental leave so she can handle the kids and I can work from home.
Neil Benson: [00:05:31] I'm about the same. I've been working from home for a year. I really miss working with people in the office. In fact, my old project team, we are allowed to meet for drinks under certain restrictions here in Brisbane. So we met up for drinks last week and it was wonderful to see everybody again. I think a lot of people in our profession are still working from home adjusting to it slowly.
Paul Heisterkamp: [00:05:52] In our case, there is no end at the tunnel visible.
Neil Benson: [00:05:57] Oh, sorry to hear that. Yeah. We're very lucky here in Brisbane that we've had very few cases, but we've also got no vaccinations either. So see what happens over the next year or so.
Thank you very much for joining me on this show. What I wanted to do was to find out more about one of the successful projects you've worked on building an amazing application.
We don't have enough Finance and Operations people on the show. So really interested to find out more about your customer and about the project and about the application you built. So can you give us a quick introduction to the customer we're going to talk about today?
Paul Heisterkamp: [00:06