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

Re:Norwegian experts say blood clots were caused by the Astr... by tyfon on Thursday March 18, 2021 @07:07PM (#26508506)

I have no idea since I am no doctor but from what I read in the article it's not a common situation. The usual treatment for blood clots is blood thinners. Not exactly sure how they work but I've thought it thins it by lowering the number of plates.

But it seems that the spike protein on the virus/vaccine is quite similar to a protein on the blood plates so if the body has a runaway immune system response to the vaccine it could attack the blood plates too.

The implication here is that this could be true for all the vaccines, there are some similar reports in Israel which do not use the AZ vaccine.

These cases are extremely rare though which is probably the most important thing here. It should not disqualify the vaccines.

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Re:Norwegian experts say blood clots were caused by the Astr... by raducu on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:55AM (#26512714)

Thanks so much for the info.

I was just wondering about Israel -- they vaccinated sooo many people, if this was an issue with the body's reaction to the S protein, it should pop up in Israel too.

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