Catching Covid is EIGHT times more likely to trigger rare blood clot than having Oxford/AstraZeneca jab
Chris Pollard
15 Apr 2021, 21:57
CATCHING Covid-19 is eight times more likely to trigger a rare blood clot than having the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab, scientists found.
Researchers at Oxford University found 39 in a million Covid patients suffered CVT a brain blood clot while it affected just five in a million people who were given the home-grown vaccine.
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Catching Covid-19 is eight times more likely to trigger a rare blood clot than having the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab, scientists foundCredit: AFP
Coronavirus also causes other types of serious blood clots including strokes and PVT, which affects the liver.
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Fauci: UK study on blood clots, vaccines and Covid-19, has some procedural gaps
From CNN s Jacqueline Howard Susan Walsh/AP
There remains some confusion around new research from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom that compares the risk of a rare type of blood clot among people who have had Covid-19 with people who received the AstraZeneca, Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, Dr. Anthony Fauci said.
What is VIPIT and how dangerous is it? As the name suggests, VIPIT is a kind of thrombocytopenia, which is the medical term for clotting. A cohort of immunology, medicine and public health experts from Victoria University - Associate Professor Anthony Zulli, Professor Maximilian de Courten, Vasso Apostolpoulos and Maja Husaric - explained the condition like this. Thrombocytopenia is a condition whereby the numbers of thrombocytes - very small blood particles, or platelets - are markedly reduced, they wrote in an article for Platelets form clots to stop bleeding, so when you don t have enough platelets in your blood, your body can t form clots. This can lead to excessive bleeding.
Risk of rare blood clots higher after Covid-19 infection than after vaccination: Study
London [UK], April 16 (ANI): Researchers at Oxford University have found the risk of a rare type of blood clot is low overall, but higher for people who have been infected with Covid-19 than among people who’ve had the three vaccines authorized in the UK – those made by AstraZeneca, Moderna and Pfizer.
April 16, 2021
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London [UK], April 16 (ANI): Researchers at Oxford University have found the risk of a rare type of blood clot is low overall, but higher for people who have been infected with Covid-19 than among people who’ve had the three vaccines authorized in the UK – those made by AstraZeneca, Moderna and Pfizer.