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UK regulators have restricted AstraZeneca s vaccine in under-30s because their risk of dying from Covid is so small and there are early signs young people are more prone to blood clots after the jab.
Analysis of the 79 cases of the rare side spotted in the UK so far has suggests one in 90,000 adults aged 18 to 29 will likely suffer the clots compared to one in 500,000 over-60s.
Scientists admit they do not have enough data to say for certain that the jab is causing the brain clots or whether these patients would have developed them regardless.
They also don t know whether young people are actually more at risk because just 1.5million out of the 20m AstraZeneca jabs deployed so far were to under-30s, and most of them were already ill or vulnerable.
Family of man who died from blood clot after vaccine urge public to get their jabs
Neil Astles, 59, died from a blood clot on the brain after receiving the AstraZeneca/Oxford coronavirus vaccine. His family said fewer people will die if Brits continue to take it
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More proof vaccines are working: Deaths have fallen by 92% in over-80s in England and Wales since peak of the second wave in January - as data shows under-60s now make up twice as many deaths than before jabs were rolled out
Office for National Statistics data showed there were 379 Covid fatalities among over-80s at end of March
This was a drop of more than 90 per cent from the 5,354 recorded at the peak of their second wave
Everyone over 60 has already been offered at least one dose of the Covid vaccine in England and Wales
Warrington Borough Council solicitor Neil Astles has died after developing a blood clot having received the Oxford Astra Zeneca vaccine. Picture by the Daily Telegraph. A CHESHIRE council worker has died from a blood clot on the brain after being given the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine. Neil Astles died aged 59 in the Royal Liverpool University Hospital on Easter Sunday, having suffered 10 days of ‘worsening headaches’ and a loss of vision in the 10 days following his first Covid-19 jab on March 17. The married Warrington Borough Council solicitor is the first named person in the UK who is suspected to have passed away as a result of side effects.
Family of AstraZeneca jab blood clot victim urge people to continue being vaccinated
Solicitor Neil Astles, 59, suffered from 10 days of worsening headaches and loss of vision after receiving his first dose
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