pregnancy: 1 in 500
combined pill: 1 in 1000
recurrent flights: 1 in 300
ICU with covid: 1 in 10
The UK has delivered millions of doses of the AZ vaccine and there have been tiny (fewer than 100) cases of blood clots.
> 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.
https://www.pei.de/EN/service/faq/coronavirus/faq-coronaviru...
> We don't need this vaccine.
I don't know who is "we", but we definitely do need this vaccine, because you are more likely to die in a car crash than from the AZ vaccine.
I agree with you that loosing AZ is not a disaster, still we have a considerable shortage of vaccines in Europe, and giving AZ to a subset, say, men and women over 65, seems like a more reasonable solution.
That said, we have three other vaccines that are more effective and don't seem to have this problem (assuming it does exist). We don't need this vaccine.