Blood clot cases ‘could dent faith of young women in AstraZeneca’
by Robin McKie, James Tapper and Toby Helm from Science | The Guardian on (#5G5D8)
Experts urge public to go for inoculations as benefits far outweigh potential complications
Health officials are becoming increasingly worried that younger people will reject Covid jabs as concerns about the AstraZeneca vaccine continue to grow. A total of 30 cases of rare blood clots have been linked to the jab in the UK, resulting in seven deaths. Eighteen million doses of the vaccine have been administered so far.
It is feared that younger women will be particularly anxious and may refuse to accept the vaccine because two-thirds of patients with these types of blood clots are female.
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