40-year-old Australian woman has three brain surgeries, five seizures, stroke after first AstraZeneca shot, so will take Pfizer or Moderna for second shot

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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Apologies for disagreeing with the anti-vax community here, but:

The article is filled with all of the usual anti-vax disinformation, and absolutely no evidence that the AstraZeneca shot caused this person's problems. They've not even tried to verify or prove a correlation between the vaccine shot and the requirement for brain surgery, as the latter can happen to anyone at any time for other reasons. There is also no evidence among the millions of other people who've received the vaccine that they had any problems with their brains therafter. But of course we're to see this one-off instance of this lady's problems as a result of the vaccine, even when it would be a billion-in-one chance AND there is absolutely no evidence that the vaccine caused the problems. Anyone agreeing with this must be extremely gullible and lacking in critical thinking skills, among other problems.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Even if it was the vaccine, one person reacting this way isn't a big deal. If there is a serious problem we won't have one lady stroking out, we will see hundreds of thousands of cases.

[–]IkeConn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Give it time.

[–]thefirststone 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's only just to blame vaccination for what the disease was blamed for before with no evidence.

Not solely spite: media and government have incentive to not blame pharmaceuticals for anything.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There's more considered reporting from the ABC

This is one of 87 cases of clotting from the 6.1 million doses of AstraZeneca administered in Australia. Two of them have resulted in death. There have been 924 deaths from COVID.

The risk is there. It's about 1 in a hundred thousand. The mRNA vaccines are safer, but AstraZeneca is much safer than Covid, and as safe as the yellow fever vaccine I got a decade ago, which had complications at about 1 in 100,000.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes - and it seems that there has been no extended investigation of AstraZeneca and blood clots for younger people. Governments are giving it to other countries, indicating that their approaches are much more circumspect. In recent months, the Pfizer version has been given in the UK, where it seems they stopped using the AZ version.