Wow. This side effect was pretty much common knowledge in Australia due to a notable early incident and the press coverage it received. It was even factored into the early vaccination process here with the AstraZeneca vaccine not being made available to everyone due to the risks, and that was somewhat of a political hot potato due to that particular vaccine being the one the government had put their money behind, signed deals, and if I recall correctly, even begun manufacturing doses before the final clinical trials were completed.

That’s just not true. Several countries stopped using the vaccine until more data was available. For example in Germany. And then when the vaccine was used again it was only used on a subset of the population (older people because this risk was minimal in those cases). It was discussed at the highest level and all throughout the country.

Nah - it was a real thing (and I like vaccines and science) with a risk running at about 2 issues in every 100,000 Asta-Z innoculations with symptoms cropping up within 42 days or so.

(With the bulk of issues being non fatal)

"hundreds of thousands" didn't die though, in all of Australia there was just one person that "probably maybe" died due to TTS (IIRC).

It was first spotted in the European adverse side affect database and written about early on.

More (on TTS and A-Z in AU): https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/covid-19-vaccines/advice-...

That's definitely not true. I remember clearly health authorities and the media were completely open that 1 in N people will die from blood clots. From the beginning.

Maybe employers wanted to weed out employees who are subject to emotion and ideology that keeps them from correctly assessing the relative risk levels between two options.