The odds of someone getting the syndrome dubbed vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia has been estimated at between one in 100,000 and one in 250,000.
By comparison, about one in four people hospitalized with COVID-19 will experience a blood clot, Alberta s chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw noted this week. Certainly based on risks, most people are much better off with a vaccine, said Dr. Daniel Gregson, an associate professor at the University of Calgary s Cumming School of Medicine. You can certainly drop it easily to 45, if not 35.
Gregson, who specializes in infectious diseases and medical microbiology, said uncertainty has been planted in peoples minds about getting AstraZeneca, but they do things that are just as risky on a daily basis without a second thought.
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Ontario’s science advisers called for a six-week stay-at-home order and a focused vaccination strategy as they warned Friday that the province’s COVID-19 infections could climb higher than 15,000 cases per day without stronger measures.
The dire predictions came as the government pleaded with other provinces to send in nurses and health workers while its hospital system buckled under surging cases.
“Our progress is both frustrating and frightening,” Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, co-chair of Ontario’s science advisory panel, said in presenting the latest projections.
Ontario reported 4,812 new cases another record on Friday, up from Thursday’s record of 4,736. It also reported 25 more deaths related to the virus.
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Doctors say lowering age cut-off for AstraZeneca vaccine makes sense as cases surge
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Pharmacist Barbara Violo shows off a vile of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine after providing doses to customers at the Junction Chemist, which is a independent pharmacy, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Friday, March 12, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
CALGARY – Doctors say the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine should be offered to Canadians in a wider age range as COVID-19 infections soar in many parts of the country.
Provinces limited eligibility for that vaccine to those 55 and older, after a small number of cases of an unusual and serious blood clotting condition appeared in younger people – mostly women – who had received a shot.