BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 08:55:00
Discover what was happening here, and it relates... it is very similar to a condition caused very rarely by a blood thinner called heparin, where, for some reason, the body seems to create antibodies against platelets. we want the immune system to create antibodies against covid but in these very rare cases, it seems to create antibodies against platelets, and they start to clump together and you get low platelet levels as well. and the fatality rate was initially much higher but it is something like 17% now. there is some suggestion that there is a slightly higher risk in women than men but i...