Does the AstraZeneca COVID vaccine cause blood clots? | DW News

Vaccinations with the Astra Zeneca coronavirus vaccine are being halted in Denmark, Norway and Iceland - for now. We asked an expert about how serious the concerns about the vaccine should be taken, and on how likely it is to be the cause of reported blood clots. Is not getting the jab more dangerous than waiting?

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[ericd]

I prefer not to die of blood clots thanks

[wearewatchingyou]

It's impossible to know exactly how rare blood clots caused by the covid vaccines are. Accurate data relies on accurate reporting, and many doctors are reluctant to connect the two.

[whamcee]

my wife and I took the AstraZeneca last fri. we are both early 40s. i felt some discomfort, fatigue, migraine and pain on the injection site. She on the other hand had lesser side effects just pain on her arms. we are on our 3rd day and we both feel much better now.

[jw]

4 weeks into my Astra Zeneca. Very relieved to see that this hasn’t affected me.

[staycurious]

My father (88) got his first shot of Comirnaty (Pfizer) in January. Two weeks later he had emergency surgery because of bilateral cerebral hemorrhage. Few hours before the surgery, the surgeon called me to explain the diagnosis. He said, the hemorrhage is not freshm but around 1, 5 - 2 weeks old. Btw: I am from Germany

[gunshyam]

You got it right 3 years ago, it is official news today.kudos DW

[Cornish_Co]

"It doesn't have a massive effect of blood clotting." So it's possible it has a small, medium, and large effect of blood clotting???

[kittykat]

Got my astra zenecca vaccine, side effects were for one night only. It made me feel really really tired and loss of appetite but was completely fine the next day. I'm 25 years old if that helps with no medical conditions.

[DinkyGaming]

I had astrazeneca yesterday..today its currently kicking my ass...i feel like i took a bad trip down 2 flights of stairs..the pain was not this bad when i actually had covid in October..its making me question weither i actually have the strength to go through this pain again with 2nd dose as its meant to be worse

[thisistheplacetobe]

My dad took the AstraZeneca vaccine 2 weeks back and he is as healthy as ever. He didn't show any side effects.

[HanaAmazawa]

Hmmm... So they are facing lawsuit right ?

[eddiel]

We had the same news from Norway on the Pfizer jab back in Jan but nobody stopped using that then 🤷🏻‍♂️

[strongman]

My partner has issues with blood clotting and takes medication for this issue and was given astrazeneca with no issue

[gregorynorcross]

The reason why I bring this up is my perfectly healthy 19 year old son received Pfizer vaccine and two weeks later he has a dvt of the brain. Inflammation out of the blue with his blood palettes dropping drastically for no reason seems to be a reaction and inflammation from some foreign source which seems to the only logical source added to the equation would be the vaccine. I'm in America and was surprised that when bringing him to the ER no questions are being asked if you just received the vaccine. I'm in no way against vaccinating but should more information and testing be done on our younger population before administration of the vaccine. I have found a lot research online starting to come to light about reaction in regards to vaccination and having covid previously and clots forming. Just seems like more research should be done inbregards to this because believe me this is my son and I'm terrified.

[johnnyrasmussen]

Here in Norway and Denmark, we also hear about, many people had really bad reaction to the firsts shut off the vaccine, you can count the expertises in both countries as top class, and now we wait for the medical result off the fatal cases we had on medic personnel.

[trevorastrong]

I had my first AZ jab a couple of weeks ago. Just a sore arm and feeling under the weather for a day or so. No blood clots, but if I had one it would probably be because strokes run in the family anyway. I'm 80 next month so the balance of risk isn't in my favour whichever way it goes.
I'll take my chances with the scientists.

[davidw]

The key bit of analysis isn’t the volume of clots caused, it’s whether all those who have had clots have any common denominator.

Blood type?
Pre-existing condition? Or taking same medications?
Blood pressure? Cholesterol levels?

[americanknow]

Who is this "expert?" DW News always does this. Not very clear who he is. Junk media. Is he Astrazeneca's employee? CEO, or what?

[claudiamorley]

Being a vaccinated British health care worker, I haven't heard about any cases of my NHS colleagues developing blood clots after the vaccine in the UK.

[robtheplod]

Pfizer has the same queries on it, but not hearing so much about that one, wonder why?