Did you mean to say AstraZeneca will produce it? As I understand Oxford is the developer and AZ is the producer.

Vaccines have been prioritised for the old and vulnerable so that 17 million number will likely have been given to a large number of unhealthy people.

>> If you had children and one of them died as a result of a vaccine, you would not say is a small population affected.

This is just a smart way of saying "Won't someone think of the children?" It's not genuine for you to speak of general-population statistical percentages in one sentence then evoke the emotional response from someone's specific loved-one in the next.

>> There are other vaccines that can be used

We need to get needles in arms NOW to save the most lives; any delay or alternative approach is actively killing people.

Is it significant? The contraceptive pill has known risks of blood clotting that are significantly higher than that.

If we are full of concern about this, maybe we should be focusing more on a drug that is used by millions of women year over year to improve its safety.

https://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/birth-control-method...

No one is forced to or risk death by not taking contraceptives. Don't compare apples and lightbulbs just because they both might have the same shape. It's nonsense.

No one anywhere to my knowledge is being forced to take any COVID vaccine.