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Re:Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine by rado on Sunday April 04, 2021 @03:36PM (#26692195)
Have the affected been taking precautionary medicine against clots, like the ones prescribed post covid?
Re:Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine by fab1an on Sunday April 04, 2021 @03:55PM (#26692352)
It doesn't work like that alas - the AZ thrombosis is a pretty serious condition and the best theory we have right now suggests it can't be just treated with an aspirin.
Re:Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine by olliej on Sunday April 04, 2021 @04:17PM (#26692507)
Didn’t the numbers come out that the AZ thrombosis numbers were below average for the general population?
Re:Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine by alkonaut on Sunday April 04, 2021 @05:08PM (#26692856)
I believe it’s not a lot higher than for the population but it’s a lot higher than the expected risk is for the group that gets the side effects now: young women.

That, together with the fact that this group has minimal risk from the disease means it’s concerning. You don’t want to give someone a vaccine with risks of the same order as the disease.

Giving AZ to 60+ is still almost no concern even with this rate of adverse effects because they show a lower thrombosis risk and of course a massively higher risk of severe illness or death from the disease.

Countries with a mix of AZ and mRNA vaccines like many EU countries can probably use AZ for 60+ and since AZ underdelivers, the rest can take mRNA. Countries that have only or mostly AZ are in a more difficult situation.