This comes from an AstraZeneca press release, but it sounds like there’s strong evidence that the AZ vaccine doesn’t cause blood clots and this is a typical case of “if anything bad happens after you take a drug, it gets reported as a side-effect”, which is why one of the possible adverse effects of the Moderna vaccine is getting struck by lightning:
A careful review of all available safety data of more than 17 million people vaccinated in the European Union (EU) and UK with COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca has shown no evidence of an increased risk of pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or thrombocytopenia, in any defined age group, gender, batch or in any particular country.
So far across the EU and UK, there have been 15 events of DVT and 22 events of pulmonary embolism reported among those given the vaccine, based on the number of cases the Company has received as of 8 March. This is much lower than would be expected to occur naturally in a general population of this size and is similar across other licensed COVID-19 vaccines.
This comes from an AstraZeneca press release, but it sounds like there’s strong evidence that the AZ vaccine doesn’t cause blood clots and this is a typical case of “if anything bad happens after you take a drug, it gets reported as a side-effect”, which is why one of the possible adverse effects of the Moderna vaccine is getting struck by lightning:
(Emphasis added)