> "The number of these cases after vaccination with COVID-19 AstraZeneca is statistically significantly higher than the number of cerebral venous thromboses that normally occur in the unvaccinated population. For this purpose, an observed-versus-expected analysis was performed, comparing the number of cases expected without vaccination in a 14-day time window with the number of cases reported after approximately 1.6 million AstraZeneca vaccinations in Germany. About one case would have been expected, and seven cases had been reported.
1 expected vs 7 observed seems significant. Of course, with tiny rates like that it's challenging to draw a clear conclusion.
Their whole FAQ is very concise and informative: [1] https://www.pei.de/EN/service/faq/coronavirus/faq-coronaviru...
Governments banning their citizens from taking Astrazeneca should use accurate language "it's banned" instead of the language "pause rollout".
Taking a COVID vaccine is a choice individuals make and governments have denied them during a pandemic.
Pausing is exactly what is happening here in Norway. And the government is not involved, all these decisions her in Norway have been made by the relevant medical institutions.
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/03/16/wh...
> "...they say that is indeed “much lower than would be expected to occur naturally in a general population of this size“. It also appears to be similar to what’s been seen with the other coronavirus vaccines..."
Until we know the methods and expectations behind numbers provided, naively taking them at face value suggests that this vaccine reduces the risk of these blood clots in the general pre-covid population. In the absence of statistically robust information about these alerts, we're stuck assuming that the experts know what they're doing until the detailed work is available and recognizing that (as Derek pointed out months ago) public attention is going to find focus on the inevitable mortality and illness rates without accomodating that people also die and have health issues for other reasons. Watch a random selection of 17 million people for a month, a five digit number of them will die. More if they're predominantly on the elder end of the scale...