The risk of blood clots from the AstraZeneca vaccine is very low. The key question is whether the risk from the vaccine is greater from the risk of getting Covid-19 and dying from it--or getting serious long-term illness. For example, even in Australia, which has done very well to limit infections and deaths from Covid, there have been 910 deaths. If the country vaccinated its entire population with the AstraZeneca vaccine, we could expect 4-6 cases of blood clots per million vaccinations, or a total of 150 cases of blood clots. Of those, 25% or 37 people would die. The risk skew is obvious. It's much better to be vaccinated than to get Covid.
The hysteria becomes even odder when we consider how many blood clot cases happen from other things which people do not worry about.
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