It sounds really nasty. Blood clots + low blood plate count at the same time.
[1] https://www.nrk.no/norge/innlagt-helsearbeider-dode-_-unders...
On top of that, nearly 3 weeks into hospital and he caught covid. At least the vaccine worked and that's mostly sorted.
MRI says he has suffered catastrophic brain damage and is about to be released for palative care for the last
Now importantly
- I don't know which vaccine he had (and I'm certainly not going to bother my mother over that at the moment)
- He's suffered from seizures for the last few years, although those normally follow infections and high temperatures
But it's disquieting
Whether or not it was the AZ vaccine or not..
"He's suffered from seizures for the last few years, although those normally follow infections and high temperatures"
A vaccine will certainly cause the body to fight the perceived infection, including with high temperatures for some people. It's possible given his history those vaccine side effects should have been considered?
Don't the clots need/use up thr platelets in the process of clotting?
But it seems that the spike protein on the virus/vaccine is quite similar to a protein on the blood plates so if the body has a runaway immune system response to the vaccine it could attack the blood plates too.
The implication here is that this could be true for all the vaccines, there are some similar reports in Israel which do not use the AZ vaccine.
These cases are extremely rare though which is probably the most important thing here. It should not disqualify the vaccines.
I was just wondering about Israel -- they vaccinated sooo many people, if this was an issue with the body's reaction to the S protein, it should pop up in Israel too.
Now.. maybe it is still worth the risk for a young 20 year old female, but I am not so sure - especially since we luckily have other vaccines that do not show this risk.
If this vaccine is causing at most 4 deaths per million people* vs 648 recorded US covid deaths 15-24 out of a population of 43.5 million. 4 * 43.5 = ~174 < 648. So, it would have been noticeably safer for a random 20 year old American to have taken it Jan 2020 than risk covid. https://knoema.com/atlas/United-States-of-America/topics/Dem...
So if the total future infections are say 1/4 the total infections up to this point then their roughly equivalent risks. Tipping one way or the other based on actual number of infections.
* It’s rare enough that actual risks aren’t clear, but assuming the vaccine is the cause we can assume the risks are at or below that level.
Do we know for sure it's just the AZ vaccine and not the body's reaction to the spike protein(that is, other vaccines should face the same issue).