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A week after receiving the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, a 37-year-old woman in Norway went to the emergency department with fever and persistent headaches. A CAT scan of her head showed a blood clot in blood vessels involved in draining the brain, but her levels of platelets, involved in clotting, were low. She was treated with platelet infusions and a blood thinner, but had a bleed in her brain the next day. She underwent surgery to relieve the pressure on her brain but died two days later. This is the side effect, known as cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, that has caused a week of worries around the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca. On Tuesday, the U.S. government said that it had seen the same effect six times among the 6.8 million people given a dose of a similar vaccine, from Johnson & Johnson, and that it recommended a pause on use of that vaccine out of an abundance of caution, while researchers investigated. ....
email article Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week. How U.K. Doc Linked Clots to AstraZeneca Vaccine As the CDC and FDA on Tuesday recommended a pause in use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, The Guardian reported how a British doctor identified the link between the rare clotting issue and the similar AstraZeneca vaccine. Marie Scully, MD, a consultant hematologist at University College London Hospital, told The Guardian that she had seen patients with blood clots in the brain and low platelets before, but there was no reason to see the condition in a young woman in her 30s whom she treated in early March. ....