US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine

Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by _wldu on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:05AM (#26793179)

Covid itself causes blood clotting in many seriously ill patients. A friend, who was in ICU in March 2020, was given Herparin (due to clotting concerns), and was told to take aspirin at home after release.

Is it surprising that the vaccines cause clotting too? Isn't this sort of obvious?

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Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by kian on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @12:20PM (#26794658)

Vaccines for tetanus don't cause lockjaw. Vaccines for measles don't give you bumps all over your body. Most vaccines, except for those that used to work by actually infecting you with a related virus, do not cause the same symptoms as the diseases they treat.

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Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by m-ee on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @12:01PM (#26794230)

No this is a very different form of clotting caused by auto antibodies that causes both clotting and low platelet counts. It's similar to HIT. Giving heparin in this situation would make things worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heparin-induced_thrombocytopen...

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Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by wonminute on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @12:40PM (#26795063)

aspirin != heparin. Question, would taking aspirin prior to and after Janssen vaccination lower this risk?

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Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by m-ee on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @12:51PM (#26795227)

No it would not. There have been a couple papers focused on the AZ vaccine that get into possible treatments.

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