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UK reports 25 fresh cases of thrombosis associated with the AstraZeneca vaccine
- anonymouse008 6y agoSome people here have written software under a time crunch, and under a “management desired result” ... Should we not be surprised with bugs in this vaccine deployment?
- xxxxxyyg1 6y agoListen, generally the left excoriates "profit-driven" medicine, but now we're all instructed to have complete faith in capitalist mega-corps! Also it's been maybe only 6 months since Kamala Harris argued she'd never take a vaccine at the instruction of Trump cause he was rushing the approval process.
- Clewza313 6y agoEgads, what a terrible source. Can the mods please replace that with (say) the FT? https://www.ft.com/content/2e52a5b0-29b9-4c7e-8cfb-97bf8edea865 https://www.ft.com/content/2e52a5b0-29b9-4c7e-8cfb-97bf8edea... The actual press release is here, but the details of the new reports are buried far down the page: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions/coronavirus-vaccine-summary-of-yellow-card-reporting https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid...
- obblekk 6y agoI wish this article reported the denominator. 25 out of how many doses administered? What is the baseline % of people who should have gotten thrombosis naturally in the last 3 months (since doses started being administered). Perhaps the answer is that this is a real risk. But the public should be taught to think in relativistic ways. It's not that hard if every newspaper always did it as reinforcement.
- ethbr0 6y ago"In Norway, health officials have reported at least 6 of Jab’s 120,000 recipients of such cases, four of whom died. In Germany, 31 cases have been reported after 2.7 million vaccinations, 29 of which are women aged 20-63 and two men aged 36-57. Nine of them have died. By March 24, MHRA had received 22 reports of CVST and 8 reports of other thrombotic events with low platelets out of a total of 18.1 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine. This corresponds to approximately one case for every 600,000 recipients."
- davycro 6y agoThose numbers appear lower than the baseline prevalence of venous thrombosis in the general population [1]. Maybe the vaccine is protective? https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/dvt/data.html https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/dvt/data.html
- davycro 6y agoNo seriously. The estimated prevalence of venous thrombosis in the United States is 1:1000. The reported numbers of VTE after the vaccine would be normal in the general population. I am an emergency physician and I diagnose and manage PE and DVT several times per week. To me this seems much ado about nothing.
- ttul 6y agoIt’s 8 incidents out of 18.1 million vaccinations according to the UK government’s own report. The prevalence generally is estimated to be between 2 and 5 per million per year [1] in a 2016 paper. Given the population prevalence, you’d expect 36 to 100 incidents in the vaccinated population. Yet they found only 8. I’m not qualified to say whether that means anything. [1] https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/STROKEAHA.116.013617 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/STROKEAHA.116.0...
- kaltuer 6y agoThrombosis affects mainly people under-55s. I wonder if now that younger people are getting the vaccine, it will increase the numbers. Mostly seniors have been vaccinated in the UK, which might explain why they've seen way fewer cases than continental Europe.