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The human body needs a continuous flow of blood through it to keep us alive.
If we get an injury, like a cut, blood clots help that injury to heal. They act kind of like a plug to stop blood leaking out.
The body usually breaks down the clot once that injury has healed. But sometimes that doesn’t happen, and those blood clots can form inside arteries or veins.
Kind of like what happened with the ship that got stuck in the Suez Canal.
Benefits of AstraZeneca vaccine outweigh risks
22 Apr 2021 | 4 mins (including 1 min video)
Risk versus benefit modelling by researchers at The University of Western Australia has weighed up the potential of harm from an extremely rare AstraZeneca vaccine blood clot complication against COVID-19 ICU admission from not being vaccinated.
Associate Professor Matthew Linden from UWA’s School of Biomedical Sciences said the modelling had identified the implications for each adult age group of waiting out the months it might take Australia to secure further supplies of an alternative vaccine.
Based on Australia’s recent low risk of COVID exposure and a possible delay of 16 weeks for an alternative vaccine, the results suggested only under 50-year-olds should consider “holding out” for an alternative vaccine. For them, there was no clear benefit from AstraZeneca vaccination when virus transmission was low.
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Link between blood clotting and AstraZeneca vaccine
Q and A with Associate Professor of Haematology Matthew Linden, from UWA’s School of Biomedical Sciences
What is the blood clotting disorder linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine?
Blood clots occur when the body’s delicate balance is disturbed, and blood becomes solid while still in circulation. This disrupts the flow of blood to and from vital organs. On rare occasions a transient disruption to this delicate balance of blood has been observed in the period between four and 14 days after being administered the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. This is termed a “prothrombotic thrombocytopaenia”. “Prothrombotic” meaning there is a potential for blood clots to form, and “thrombocytopaenia” meaning the number of blood cells which are central to maintaining this balance sharply falls. These cells are sometimes referred to as thrombocytes, but more commonly known as blood platelets.
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