The company AstraZeneca has acknowledged, through documents submitted to the court, that the vaccine it developed and produced to combat COVID-19 may lead to side effects, although these are "rare." According to CNBC, the documents submitted by the company came after lawsuits accused AstraZeneca of causing serious injuries and deaths related to its vaccine, which was developed in collaboration with the University of Oxford. Several families have accused the company in a court complaint, stating that "the side effects of the vaccine had devastating effects," and several families claimed in their court complaint that the side effects of the AstraZeneca vaccine have "significant" harmful effects on human health.