By NewsDesk @bactiman63
The Norwegian Medicines Agency has received several adverse reaction reports about younger vaccinated people who have had skin hemorrhages (small-spotted skin hemorrhages and / or larger or smaller blue spots) after the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination. This is serious and can be a sign of decreased platelet count.
Health officials were informed yesterday of a report from Tynset about an unexpected death as a result of a brain hemorrhage after vaccination with COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca.
Today, March 13, we received three more reports of severe cases of blood clots or cerebral hemorrhages in younger people who have received the AstraZeneca vaccine. These are now receiving treatment in hospitals.
Common to these patients is that they have had a reduced number of platelets in the blood. Blood clots and subsequent cerebral hemorrhage are a rare condition.
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health, or Folkehelseinstituttet (FHI) has put the AstraZeneca vaccine on pause.
FHI and the Norwegian Medicines Agency have initiated studies to investigate the connection between the vaccine and various forms of blood clots, such as stroke and blood clots in the lungs. These analyzes will take time.
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There seems to be some confusion here. A low platelet count leads to bleeding in skin and brain etc NOT clotting. Very rarely you can have an overwhelming clotting condition in which the platelets are reduced in the blood because they have all been used up, ie a consumptive coagulopathy. Did this occur in some of these cases? Do you have a reference to the details of the clinical findings?
Dr Philip Roberts FRCP, FRCPath.
This is why Sweden has stopped the vaccine. The patients have both blod clots and a low platelet coynt at the same time. Almost unheard. Just bold clots, well could be in the normal population but the combination must be caused by the vaccine.
I wonder how many of these patients had undiagnosed antiphosphid lipid syndrome? This autoimmune condition is associated both with anemia and blood clots. COVID-19 infection itself can apparently trigger the same antibody production. Might it follow that a dysfunctional immune response to the vaccine can duplicate this impact in people already at risk of this condition? Does this suggest, perhaps that screening should be more widespread? Is anybody studying this issue?