It is CVST not just blood clots. There are a lot more blood clots with or without the vaccine. CVST is rare so is the proverbial canary in the coal mine here.

The CVST incidents give a lower bound on risk. The trial data give a rough upper bound on risk (rough due to the small sample size). Knowledge is being refined here. We can't make educated choices without knowledge.

> They are not giving people an educated choice

Hard to give people an educated choice without looking into the issue first. Once they know what is going on it will most likely be back to normal. There was a similar issue in Europe, but that neatly overlapped with a delivery shortage of the affected vaccine.

Sorry you are correct - I should have been more specific in my wording.

We should give people an educated choice. With unknown side effects we are not doing that. Thank you for pointing that out.

It is impossible to rule out unknown side effects. The blood clots are now known. Any side effect that is unknown will always remain unknown. You could always be the first person to experience a symptom, whether it's Tylenol or this vaccine.

We should be very specific though: If you take this vaccine, there's a 1 in 10 billion chance that a meteor strikes the pharmacy while you're in it.

Make sure you cover every possible thing, no matter how unlikely.