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Researchers in Germany and Canada have added provocative new details to their proposal for how the COVID-19 vaccine made by AstraZeneca might be causing an unusual clotting disorder in a small number of recipients. The mechanism, involving stray human proteins and a preservative in the vaccine, remains speculative. And it is not clear whether their hypothesis explains similar reactions observed in recipients of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Johnson & Johnson (J&J).
The new data are “interesting but not a smoking gun by any means” for the group’s hypothesis, says Gowthami Arepally, a hematologist at the Duke University School of Medicine who is working as an external consultant with AstraZeneca on the issue. But figuring out what in a COVID-19 vaccine might start the sometimes fatal combination of blood clotting and low platelets is crucial for developing better treatments for the side effect and po
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