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Denmark and Norway suspended the use of AstraZeneca s COVID-19 shot Thursday as a precautionary measure .
The Danish Health authorities cited concerns about blood clots in people that had received the shot.
Data suggests that the risk of clots is no greater than in the population at large.
Denmark, Norway, and Iceland suspended their roll out of AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford s COVID-19 vaccine as a precautionary step Thursday, citing concerns about blood clots in people who had received the shot.
One person in Denmark who was immunized with the vaccine died from a blood clot, the Danish Health Authority said in a statement Thursday. At this point, it s not known whether there is a link between the vaccine and blood clots, it said.
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