Immune response may be linked to AstraZeneca vaccine clot issue

Reuters ^

[springwater13]

Researchers may have found an explanation for the rare but serious blood clots reported among some people who received AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine. They believe the phenomenon is similar to one that rarely occurs with a blood thinning drug called heparin, called heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT). In HIT, the drug triggers the immune system to produce antibodies that activate platelets, which cause blood to clot.

Drugs other than heparin can cause clotting disorders that strongly resemble HIT, and researchers suspect that in rare cases, the AstraZeneca vaccine may be another such trigger.

Four previously healthy individuals who got the AstraZeneca shot and developed life-threatening clots had the same kind of antibodies that activate platelets and initiate clotting in HIT, the researchers reported on Monday in a paper posted on Research Square ahead of peer review.

[dynoman]

Why no replies?

[Stentor]

What was their first clue? /s

[Stentor]

Why no replies?

🤔

[linMcHlp]

bttt

[ssfromla]

They’re in shock. Not! :) lol

[JohnBovenmyer]

So take an aspirin before getting the shot. Inactivates your platelets for a week.

[ssfromla]

So a few die here and a few die there. It's all for the greater good. /rollmyeyes

Those people were going to die anyway is what they say because they know perfectly well that this whole charade has been and all their plans are in plain sight for anyone to see.

It's called
social cleansing

Let me tell you this too. Not a damn one of us are considered within their social circles so that means you are or someone you know will be next.

It's pretty sad.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Belay my aspirin suggestion. The process is more complicated than I’d thought. Other anticoagulants make more sense.

[joe fonebone]

Several years ago my body just started throwing clots for no reason. After months of diagnosis, a stroke and a PE,my doctor shipped me off to an oncologist.
After about a month of tests and blood work, no reason could be found.

Then the oncologist dug a little deeper.
Turns out a drug I was injecting for psoriatic arthritis had a rare side effect. It could cause your body to randomly throw blood clots.
I stopped the drug and have not had a problem since.

If this vaccine has even a remote chance of that happening,
Thanks but no.
Not no but hell no.

[indthkr]

AstraZenaca clotting problem - bump for later....

[buridan]

Have there been similar problems with other Covid vaccines?

[indthkr]

"Have there been similar problems with other Covid vaccines?"

Haven't heard of any.