Norwegian experts say blood clots were caused by the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine

Re:Norwegian experts say blood clots were caused by the Astr... by skeeter2020 on Thursday March 18, 2021 @10:41AM (#26503193)

I heard a doctor comment yesterday that seems to summarize what's happening: "It's perceived as worse to actively kill someone than to kill them through inaction; the scale doesn't matter."

So even if the vaccine is responsible for these deaths, the people making the administration decisions will choose having 10x or 100x the number of people die from not getting them vaccinated quickly. So much for "science-based decision-making"...

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Re:Norwegian experts say blood clots were caused by the Astr... by sceadu on Thursday March 18, 2021 @10:45AM (#26503232)

Trolley problem with a needle and some dice

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Re:Norwegian experts say blood clots were caused by the Astr... by tomjen3 on Thursday March 18, 2021 @11:45AM (#26503849)

Covid has a certain chance of killing any particular person (not the same chance for each person), the vaccine has a much lower chance than average COVID and prevents the COVID chance.

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Re:Norwegian experts say blood clots were caused by the Astr... by kspacewalk2 on Thursday March 18, 2021 @12:41PM (#26504558)

This vaccine has a much lower chance of killing you than COVID on average. From which you cannot draw the conclusion that vaccine has a much lower chance of killing any particular person - e.g. a healthy 20-something. That part is not at all clear.

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Re:Norwegian experts say blood clots were caused by the Astr... by Gibbon1 on Thursday March 18, 2021 @04:05PM (#26506988)

I'm bothered by two things.

The first is multivariate studies are notorious for throwing false positives especially when positive cases are in the sigle digits.

Comparing data sets collected under different surveillance regimes is difficult.

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