Reports of uncommon and weird blood clots have resulted in a number of vaccine roll outs being paused whereas scientists scramble to work out if the vaccines are accountable and in that case how.
The uncommon mixture of signs, together with a low platelet depend and clots focussed in the stomach or mind, appears just like a uncommon facet impact from remedy with the drug blood thinning drug Heparin – nevertheless it isn’t clear how the vaccines could cause the syndrome.
In this episode of Coronapod we talk about the newest theories and ask how scientists are attempting to get to the backside of this vital query. Medical regulators keep that the advantages of those vaccines considerably outweigh the dangers. But as uncertainty spreads, we ponder the wider implications of those reviews, together with the public notion of threat.
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