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Dutch government halts AstraZeneca vaccine for people under 60 amid reports of blood clots
Fox 9 News ^ | 04/03/2021 | Mike Corder

Posted on 04/03/2021 11:50:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The Dutch government said Friday it is temporarily halting AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccinations for people under 60 following reports of very small number of people suffering unusual blood clots after receiving the shot.

The Dutch decision comes three days after authorities in Germany also stopped using the AstraZeneca’s vaccine in the under-60s, citing fresh concerns over unusual blood clots reported in a tiny number of those who received the shots.

Earlier Friday, a Dutch organization that monitors vaccine side effects said it had received five reports of blood clots with low blood plate counts following vaccinations. All the cases occurred between seven and 10 days after the vaccinations and all the people affected were women aged between 25 and 65 years.

The organization said in the period when the five cases were reported, some 400,000 people were vaccinated in the Netherlands with the AstraZeneca shot.

Health Minister Hugo de Jonge says the temporary halt is a precautionary measure.

"I think it is very important that the Dutch reports are also properly investigated," De Jonge said. "We must err on the side of caution."

The news is another setback for the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is critical to Europe’s immunization campaign and a linchpin in the global strategy to get shots to poorer countries, for it is cheaper and easier to use than rival vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna. It comes two weeks after the EU drug regulator said the vaccine does not increase the overall incidence of blood clots following a similar scare.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astrazeneca; bloodclots; netherlands; vaccine

1 posted on 04/03/2021 11:50:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The vaccines aren’t supposed to kill people until later.


2 posted on 04/03/2021 11:51:35 AM PDT by Old Yeller
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder what role contraceptive use might play in a reaction to a vaccine like this. Because birth control pills are known to increase risk of clotting as well (?)

Prayers for all affected and any who are about to take that vaccine. As it is still in use in Uk and around world.


3 posted on 04/03/2021 11:52:46 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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4 posted on 04/03/2021 11:53:15 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: SeekAndFind; BeauBo

A hah. Article today re: the factor birth control pills might play.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/is-hormonal-birth-control-a-factor-in-developing-astrazeneca-linked-blood-clots-experts-say-it-s-unlikely-1.5371877


5 posted on 04/03/2021 11:54:43 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: SeekAndFind

I guess it’s OK for people OVER sixty to have blood clots....


6 posted on 04/03/2021 12:15:07 PM PDT by moonhawk (Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party? Asking for a friend.)
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To: SeekAndFind
I've seen reports of vaccinated people in the use having both clotting and bleeding.

The extensive clotting 'uses' up all platelets needed to stop bleeding. Weird.

That could mean that if surgeons try to operate to remove clots, the patient can't stop bleeding from surgical incisions.

Here's an example of the bleeding from lack of platelets.


7 posted on 04/03/2021 1:22:54 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: Old Yeller

The vaccines aren’t supposed to kill people until later.
How true and by that time they died of natural causes NOT COVID


8 posted on 04/03/2021 1:28:22 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ransomnote; Jan_Sobieski

Thanks ransomnote.

*PING* to Jan Sobieski (Please refer to the post this one is in reply to).


9 posted on 04/03/2021 1:37:51 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“hormonal-birth-control-a-factor-in-developing-astrazeneca-linked-blood-clots”

They are also a long-known factor in the same type of blood clotting/platelet issues in women who don’t get vaccines.

In fact, when the European Medicines Agency examined the 13 cases that caused the first big scare (with 20 nations suspending AZ vaccinations), they found that the rate of women using those birth control drugs and getting blood clots after vaccination, was lower than that of the women using those drugs who were not vaccinated - but sample size (13) was too small for statistically significant measures to be made.

Making a mountain out of a molehill.


10 posted on 04/03/2021 2:12:58 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

That’s what I mean though. So did they have pre existing clotting issues that were exacerbated?


11 posted on 04/03/2021 2:22:28 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

“did they have pre existing clotting issues that were exacerbated?”

It seems that the may have gotten clotting/platelet issues from their birth control pills or other estrogen products (side effects they are known to cause) despite being vaccinated against COVID, rather than because of it.

Another of those issues where something happens after vaccination, so they say vaccination must have caused it.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc.


12 posted on 04/03/2021 7:22:18 PM PDT by BeauBo
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