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Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by FunnyLookinHat on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:41PM (#26796110)
I guess I wasn't being specific - good correction. Reporting medical side effects can easily lag with new treatments, especially when we're not sure what we're looking for.

I suspect that, as soon as we start looking for blood clotting post-vaccine, then you'll find more cases that may have not been caught otherwise due to their not being severe enough to be noticed.

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Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by AndrewBissell on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:58PM (#26796412)
This exact thing happened with the AstraZeneca vaccine, which works very similarly to J&J. The EMA is now recognizing thrombocytopenia (not the same fatal issue but possibly related) as a "common" side effect, i.e. somewhere between 1 in 10 to 1 in 100.

https://twitter.com/HamidMerchant/status/1381797044495466504

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