Vaccine lead in wales describes what to look out for in uncommon blood clot response to vaccine
Dr Gill Richardson, who’s accountable for the vaccine rollout in Wales, instructed BBC Radio Wales on Thursday: “(*8*) Zeneca vaccine has been developed right here in Britain, it’s a actually protected vaccine and a very efficient vaccine and it has been utilized in tens of millions of individuals now and we all know it is vitally protected within the majority of individuals.
“This analysis is simply actually exhibiting us that as they’ve regarded again, they wish to observe these uncommon unwanted effects simply to be completely positive on whether or not there’s a correlation with the vaccine which will not be causal however as a result of as you already know there are clots brought on by simply having Covid as effectively and that could be a a lot greater danger as effectively, in addition to the chance of loss of life and ITU admission.
“It has been in comparison with flying it has been in comparison with driving for 3 months as an illustration. There is a background of those very uncommon clots which is about two per million anyway, and within the vaccinated inhabitants we now have seen a charge of 4 per million however that’s actually very tiny.
“If any individual has an acute onset headache approaching 4 days or extra after a vaccination which is a really uncommon headache, very extreme, typically worse on bending ahead, probably related to nausea additionally maybe accompanied by extra bruising for them on the injection web site or pin prick web site which is uncommon for them then that could possibly be an indication so we do say and we now have despatched communication out to all our well being professionals simply to say these are the issues to look out for.”
