20 April, 2021, 1:00 am
People line up to receive AstraZeneca’s COVID-19
vaccine in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
The United Kingdom has used the vaccine more
than any other European country. Picture: Clodagh
Kilcoyne/REUTERS
What was a worrisome suspicion four weeks ago is now widely accepted: The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine can, in very rare cases, cause a disorder characterised by dangerous blood clots and low platelet counts.
In Europe, at least 222 suspected cases have been reported among 34 million people who have received their first dose of the vaccine. More than 30 have died.
“Causality is more of a journey to certainty than a binary decision,” says Anthony Cox, an expert on pharmacovigilance at the University of Birmingham.
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