Not really. There are a few cheap, readily available things people should have instructed to do at the first sign of any symptoms.
Aspirin 81 alone could have saved millions of lives. It still can. All it takes is a 15 second commercial explaining how covid 1984 impacts the body's production of platelets. Same goes for anyone taking the AZ jab. Go home, take Aspirin 81..no clots.
What is amazing is the paucity of evidence about an elevated risk of blood clots after taking the AZ vaccine. It seems to be a classic example of the
post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. Basically, just because B follows A does not mean that A
caused B. In this case, Denmark was first to
suspend the use of the AZ vaccine last week due to reports of clotting, including one fatal case. Other countries, including Norway and Iceland, quickly followed suit.
However, AstraZeneca has been quick to point out that there is no evidence of a problem. Yes, there have been cases of blood clots, but there don’t appear to be any more than one might expect. As
David Spiegelhalter has pointed out, the European Medicines Agency says there have been 30 ‘thromboembolic events’ following around five million vaccinations. But, he notes, ‘Deep-vein thromboses (DVTs) happen to around one person per 1,000 each year, and probably more in the older population being vaccinated’.
Looking more broadly at the side effects from the vaccines, he concludes that ‘these vaccines have shown themselves to be extraordinarily safe’. He compares the logic to the misplaced scares around MMR and autism, which have led to many parents rejecting another safe vaccine. Of course, we should monitor the data in case a risk does arise – which is why we have a reporting system for side effects – but the data so far do not justify such extreme action.
The decision of EU states to suspend the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine is not cautious – it’s dangerous.
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More fool the EU. While Great Britain has rapidly vaccinated half its people with the Great British vaccine with hardly any side effects whatsoever, the EU is playing with people's lives and is standing by and watching its people die as it plays silly games when, during an emergency, there should be no such silly games. And while Britain will have all its people vaccinated and her back to normal, the EU will still be struggling to vaccinate its people and still be in lockdown.
Not our problem.
Thank God for Brexit.