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Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by JediWing on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:19PM (#26795704)
7 people in a fairly specific demographic (women 18-38, I believe), when there are 2 other alternative vaccinations available.

Do we have any data on the total number of women 18-38 who received this vaccine? It may actually be fairly low given we may have selection bias to give these vaccines to an older population.

The outcome may simply be to recommend that members in this demographic avoid this particular vaccine until further analysis is done.

Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by mzs on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:53PM (#26796335)
six women 18-48y

Though rates of increasing the risk of blood clots for different birth controls vary, the ones that do range from 2-6x. The FDA estimates that in US out of every 10 thousand women using combination oral contraceptives or birth control pills 3 to 9 will develop blood clots each year while for comparison the same rate for women who are not pregnant and do not take COCs is 1 to 5 which is interesting considering the age range of the six cases.

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-d...

That said research is beginning to understand the mechanism of these rare blood clots in connection to adenovirus vector meds and since it is so rare it's hard to get a precise number but other studies predict an excess increase of severe blood clots in the range of 1 in every 500 thousand to million patients.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000649712...

Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by moate on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:30PM (#26795894)
6 Women aged 18-48.