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I say both risks are totally related. Covid itself causes blood clots. The solution here has been to administer aspirin to Covid patients. So the solution fo

by Shorel 6y ago

I say both risks are totally related. Covid itself causes blood clots. The solution here has been to administer aspirin to Covid patients. So the solution for the AstraZeneca vaccine should be the same. Vaccinate people, give them some aspirin over two weeks, just in case.

elliekelly 6y ago
It reminds me of the blood clotting scare tactic sometimes used to discourage women from taking birth control. I remember raising it once with my OB/GYN who quickly told me that the risk of blood clots from the pill is very low for a non-smoker like me while the risk of getting blood clots if I became pregnant is much higher.
magnusmundus 6y ago
It really complicates the operations though, which is already proving to be difficult for many countries: You have to add aspirin distribution & storage to the vaccine, which might be an issue for costs if not for the logistics of it. More importantly, you have to manage whether the vaccinated people can take aspirin. You don't want this to be how you find out you have a different blood coagulation issue, or anything else that aspirin can affect adversely (I'm not a medical professional).
TheOtherHobbes 6y ago
There are two semi-independent clotting systems. Broadly, aspirin works on the one associated with heart attacks. Most strokes are caused by the other. So taking aspirin for strokes doesn't usually help. (Source: had a mild stroke, was told this by multiple neurologists.) Covid seems related to both. You need non-trivial blood thinners - Warfarin, rivaroxaban, apixaban - to affect DVT etc, and those are high-maintenance meds with side effects of their own. But there is some evidence that aspirin does help with Covid clotting, and low doses for short periods seem pretty safe. So the worst you'll do is improve your odds of avoiding problems from something that's already not much of an issue.
marcosdumay 6y ago
I wonder is the aspirin won't bring higher risk than the vaccine. The numbers people are passing around are way too low. Low enough that it's difficult to understand why somebody is taking any action at all instead of reading it as a minuscule statistical fluctuation.

by Shorel 6y ago

elliekelly 6y ago

It reminds me of the blood clotting scare tactic sometimes used to discourage women from taking birth control. I remember raising it once with my OB/GYN who quickly told me that the risk of blood clots from the pill is very low for a non-smoker like me while the risk of getting blood clots if I became pregnant is much higher.

magnusmundus 6y ago

It really complicates the operations though, which is already proving to be difficult for many countries: You have to add aspirin distribution & storage to the vaccine, which might be an issue for costs if not for the logistics of it. More importantly, you have to manage whether the vaccinated people can take aspirin. You don't want this to be how you find out you have a different blood coagulation issue, or anything else that aspirin can affect adversely (I'm not a medical professional).

TheOtherHobbes 6y ago

There are two semi-independent clotting systems. Broadly, aspirin works on the one associated with heart attacks. Most strokes are caused by the other. So taking aspirin for strokes doesn't usually help. (Source: had a mild stroke, was told this by multiple neurologists.) Covid seems related to both. You need non-trivial blood thinners - Warfarin, rivaroxaban, apixaban - to affect DVT etc, and those are high-maintenance meds with side effects of their own. But there is some evidence that aspirin does help with Covid clotting, and low doses for short periods seem pretty safe. So the worst you'll do is improve your odds of avoiding problems from something that's already not much of an issue.

marcosdumay 6y ago

I wonder is the aspirin won't bring higher risk than the vaccine. The numbers people are passing around are way too low. Low enough that it's difficult to understand why somebody is taking any action at all instead of reading it as a minuscule statistical fluctuation.