Under 40 will be offered an alternative vaccine

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www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-vaccine-astrazeneca-blood-clots-cases-latest-b1842455.html

They made sure they waited until all 40s have been jabbed until they released this piece of news.

I’m still grateful for my jab nevertheless.
In other news, many cluster of Indian variant are scattered across the country and about to become a variant of concern, but of course they buried this news because its Election Day today. I’m fed up of this mess and this reactive nonsense. Why not be proactive and make sure our border defences were more robust. It’s like I told you so?! Who would have guessed?!

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/06/new-concerns-indian-covid-variant-clusters-found-across-england-ongoing-risk-high

@Tryingtryingandtrying

Londonwfuck It is good to see the risks like this. Easy to understand. Interesting though when you compare the rhetoric around the risk of covid to the risk of vaccine. One to be feared and one to be minimised.

To be fair, the risks of covid to humanity are clearly colossally greater than the risks of any of the vaccines - you only have to look at India and what has happened around the world in the last year to see that. Assessing the risks versus the benefits isn’t really as simple as looking at a chart - it also depends on speculation about what is going to happen with covid, how quickly the situation could change, when alternative vaccines can be made available to you, what you do, what your particular risk factors are (not that anybody fully understands all the risk factors of either covid or the vaccine complications), whereabouts you live, etc, etc.

"Gps don't know these details generally. Is there not a phone number linked to your booking.
Our Gp has nothing to do with Covid vaccinations."

No phone number in the text I got to confirm my bookings. Anyway, I went to my vaccine place today, they were only doing AZ, I declined and was told they would be giving out Pfizer in the next couple of weeks, so I shall be aiming to rebook tomorrow morning.

Tbh, I just can't get too worried about blood clots etc when you've apparently got a better chance of guessing somebody's pin code the first time than getting a clot.

@MrsTroutfire Is that right? I heard people comparing risks but I never know where they come from.

@LondonWFuck Oh I hope mine will do the same then. I will be turning 40 beginning of June so am right on the cusp. I am BFing so I only want Pfizer as read of a small study on that on BFing Mums.

@MrsTroutfireIs that right? I heard people comparing risks but I never know where they come from.

It was on another thread here. I think they explained the figures but can't remember for sure.

After a quick Google it seems to be true. One in a million chance of dying from a blood clot and the odds of dying in a car crash are 2,899 higher.

How guessing a four-digit PIN code on the first attempt is 100 times more likely to happen than suffering a blood clot after an Oxford-AstraZeneca jab

www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9457839/amp/Things-likely-Covid-jab-blood-clot.html

The vaccine risk isn't really comparable to car crashes though because other than not having the vaccine, there is nothing you can do to minimise that risk. How many die in a car crash because they were speeding or under the influence or the weather was bad? You can even choose not to drive as much or at all to minimise the risk.

And the circumstances are different when you're trying to get the whole of the population in the world to take the vaccine. The stats are not one in a million anyway but even if they were, if you then ask 50 million people to do something, 50 of them would definitely die.

The vaccine risk isn't really comparable to car crashes though because other than not having the vaccine, there is nothing you can do to minimise that risk. How many die in a car crash because they were speeding or under the influence or the weather was bad? You can even choose not to drive as much or at all to minimise the risk.

But my point was more that people fret about getting a blood clot then happily jump in their car for a non essential trip to McDonald's.