[Info-vax] [Totally OT] Covid-19 vaccine situation

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <icjfkjFlqj2U1 at mid.individual.net>, Andy Burns
<usenet at andyburns.uk> writes: 

> Simon Clubley wrote:
> 
> > I had my first AZ dose a couple of weeks ago and was very happy
> > to have it at the time because the benefits dramatically outweigh the
> > risks.
> 
> At the time that I was driving to the vaccination centre the first news 
> of the EU countries halting the AZ vaccine was on the radio, did I even 
> think twice about continuing?  No.
> 
> I think they're taking the precautionary principle too far on this, 
> disregarding the harm that halting will cause, sounds like Netherlands 
> has halted due to Germany halting, not due to any actual cases in the 
> Netherlands.

But is anyone not being vaccinated who otherwise would be?  But even if 
that were the case, the PR problems from playing this down would be far 
worse than overreacting.

> Things I've read (and probably don't understand very well) say that 
> taking oral contraceptives increases the risk of cerebral venous sinus 
> thrombosis by 7.5x, but you'd think they would be looking for levels 
> above the background rate, not for levels above zero?

Definitely the former.  What makes you think the latter?  That might 
explain why almost all cases have been in women, though.