Just wanted to make few things clear.
Many Twitter accounts are using the news report on "rare" side effect of blood clotting from the AstraZeneca (Covishield) vaccine as a "political tool." Most of these accounts are fully invested in political commentary and have suddenly shifted to using anti-vaxx sentiments to push their pro-political narratives.
Weaponizing known "unknowns" in scientific healthcare by health illiterates will only promote unnecessary anti-science sentiments among people and promote vaccine hesitancy (including for other major beneficial vaccines such as polio, diphtheria, mumps and measles etc.)
🤡STOP POLITICIZING MEDICAL SCIENCE🤡
Most of these accounts seem intelligent and logical, but are still science illiterates with poor scientific temperament and poor understanding of virology, immunology, vaccination benefits and disease burden reduction.
The clotting side effect of AZ vaccine is already known and is extremely rare: Incidence of is ~4 per million. Here is a link to the recommended workup which was already in place years ago. This is not new information. https://t.co/DjHj3JhBuV
In comparison, risk of clotting events with severe Covid infection ranges from 5% to 25% as per multiple studies, which is exponentially larger than due to the vaccine.
This paper shows how weaponizing rare adverse events with higher benefits to risk vaccination resulted in vaccine hesitancy and more harms within the society.
AstraZeneca Vaccine Controversies in the Media: Theorizing About the 'Mediatization' of Ignorance in the Context of the COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign
https://t.co/rRqGhkCpJN
Also as the media claims here, it is not that first time AstraZeneca admits risk of clotting events (again rarest side effect) associated with Covid.
It’s in their packaging insert: https://t.co/a82GOH18lP
There is NO CLINICALLY VALIDATED data to showcase young people died of cardiac events due to Covid vaccinations. This is old anti-vaxx garbage peddled by the anti-science community.
No link between Covid vaccines used in India and heart attack risk
https://t.co/jsVJteT3ks
You want to talk about risks? Then talk about risk of lightning strikes and car accidents, alcohol and tobacco and insect bites and bee stings and such related deaths, which are MUCH MORE than what is expected from vaccination related risks.
Grow up people.
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