Re:Risk of rare blood clotting higher for Covid-19 than for ...
by morsch on Thursday April 15, 2021 @05:07PM
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Regarding AZ, the paper refers to EMA data from three weeks ago[1], which under normal circumstances would be very recent, but in this case I guess it's rather old.
I looked up official numbers[2] from Germany from yesterday: about 4 million AZ first dose vaccinations, 55 reported cases of CVST, 11 fatal (6 women, 5 men).
Since the CVST occur within a week or two after vaccination, you'd expect a few more cases causally related to the 4m vaccinations, so around 15 cases per million vaccinations and around 3 deaths. That's higher than the number they cite, but still much lower than the number they arrive at for Covid.
I looked up official numbers[2] from Germany from yesterday: about 4 million AZ first dose vaccinations, 55 reported cases of CVST, 11 fatal (6 women, 5 men).
Since the CVST occur within a week or two after vaccination, you'd expect a few more cases causally related to the 4m vaccinations, so around 15 cases per million vaccinations and around 3 deaths. That's higher than the number they cite, but still much lower than the number they arrive at for Covid.
[1] https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/astrazenecas-covid-19-vacc...
[2] https://www.pei.de/DE/service/presse/aktuelles/aktuelles-inh... PEI is the German EMA equivalent, basically