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I think they have also used Norway's numbers. As to the difference, maybe they first vaccinated health professionals with AZ and UK mostly vaccinated older peo
by tpm 6y ago
I think they have also used Norway's numbers.
As to the difference, maybe they first vaccinated health professionals with AZ and UK mostly vaccinated older people with it, so different issues became apparent? It affects mostly younger women, so it would manifest pretty clearly with female nurses.
- DoingIsLearning 6y agoOne thing I haven't seen discussed is that staff nurses, instrument nurses, etc. spend much more time standing up in a stationary position (not walking or sitting) compared with other healthcare workers in a hospital setting. Everyone is jumping to focus on young females/genetics but it could really just be occupation related, most of these nurses will have their vacine shot on-site and continue their daily shift afterwards (where they stand orthostatic for several hours).
- tpm 6y agoI can only speculate since I know next to nothing about that but AFAIK those thromboses are not in leg veins but in different parts of the body - in the brain (Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis), lungs (embolism) etc. Also the mechanism which causes this seems to be better understood now - https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2104840 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2104840 "Vaccination with ChAdOx1 nCov-19 can result in the rare development of immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia mediated by platelet-activating antibodies against PF4, which clinically mimics autoimmune heparin-induced thrombocytopenia."