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Melanie Bitner, 47, who insists she is not anti-vaccine, got her first shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine on April 23 and soon became extremely ill. The Squamish marketing and communications professional says that 12 days later she was admitted to the Vancouver General Hospital intensive care unit with multiple blood clots and was “pretty much at death’s door.” She was released from the hospital after a week but had to be readmitted when her rare condition, known as vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia, worsened. Bitner says she has since lost her business, six months of income, her health and is now...