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> From the FDA: "Out of every 10,000 women taking birth control pills, 3 to 9 of them will develop a blood clot". > That is about 100x greater than clotting fr
by quickthrowman 5y ago
> From the FDA: "Out of every 10,000 women taking birth control pills, 3 to 9 of them will develop a blood clot".
> That is about 100x greater than clotting from AstraZeneca Vaccine, and 10's of millions of American women are taking it daily. Now that's context.
More context: the vaccine clots have been in the brain, birth control clots tend to occur in the legs (and rarely in the lungs). You can use heparin to treat the latter, but heparin could make the brain clot from the vaccine worse. I’m no medical professional, so I’ll let this article do the heavy lifting: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/04/23/fact-check-birth-control-vaccine-blood-clot-comparison-lacks-nuance/7256800002/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/04/23/fac...
Despite that, the odds seem to favor using the J&J vaccine based on numbers. The reported clot cases and total vaccines are 6 in 6.7 million with 1 death. If those odds are extrapolated, this means approximately 1150 people would die if everyone on earth received the J&J vaccine, and 6600 would have blood clots.
All of the cases were in women of roughly child-bearing age, give them an option/priority for the mRNA vaccines, see if clots occur in other demographic groups.
I had the J&J shot, and would do so again.