Who's afraid of the AstraZeneca vaccine?

Europe, apparently.

While the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 is gradually being rolled out across Canada, several European countries have abruptly halted its use because of alleged health risks:

Spain, Germany, France and Italy have become the latest European countries to temporarily halt the rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine over a small number of blood clot concerns, going against the advice of international medical agencies as a third wave of infections looms over the continent.

Spain will stop using the vaccine for two weeks, the country's Health Minister Carolina Darias announced in a nationally televised news conference Monday.

It's a "temporary and precautionary" suspension, she said, "until the risks can be evaluated by the European Medicines Agency."

After initially standing by the safety of the vaccine, German health minister Jens Spahn said Monday that the country would pause inoculations as a precaution, following reports of a handful of cases of blood clots in people vacci…