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Are Birth Control Pills 1000 Times More Likely To Cause Blood Clots Than The J&J Vaccine? Posted on
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Birth control pills are 1,000 times more likely to cause blood clots than the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
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An April 13 2021 Facebook screenshot of a tweet was part of disordered discourse surrounding a “pause” by the Biden administration of the Johnson & Johnson shot for COVID-19. As conspiracy theories about and disinformation about the efficacy of the various vaccines got a fresh boost, others attempted to put the numbers into perspective.
One popular exchange on Twitter on this topic suggested that birth control pills were a thousand times more likely to cause blood clots than this particular vaccine:
April 16, 2021 6:10 AM By Brandon Lee
Lawmakers seeking to lower drug costs should take a comprehensive approach rather than focus solely on manufacturersâ pricing practicesâa strategy thatâs only created disparities in the marketplace, policy analysts say.
Drug pricing will come back to the forefront of policy discussions in the coming months as Covid-19 vaccines become more readily available and lawmakers turn to other issues. But many of the roughly two dozen bills floating around Congress primarily address the prices drug companies set and ignore other aspects of the supply chain, including the pharmacy middlemen that control how insurance pays for medications.
Why the Vaccine Safety Numbers Are Still Fuzzy
Putting a risk in context: The rate of blood clots is extremely low, but the pause in the Johnson & Johnson vaccine could reveal more cases.
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A mass vaccination site in Elgin, Ill., closed for a day because of the pause put on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.Credit.Rick West/Daily Herald, via Associated Press
When federal officials paused administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after six cases of a rare clotting disorder, one fatal, among the 6.9 million people who had received the vaccine, many critics noted that the chance of a serious ailment was so rare as to be negligible less frequent than being struck by lightning.