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Katie's avatar

Hi Dr Jetelina- can you tell me how this compares to the risk of blood clots from oral contraceptives? A risk that our physicians are generally okay with us taking?

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Douglas Davis, RN BSN's avatar

Random occurrence of venous thrombosis is annual rate of 1 in 1000 for adults (Cushman, 2007; CDC, 2020). So given we are talking about 1 in over 1 million (vaccinated with J&J vaccine) the fact they stopped the usage of the vaccine with no attributable causal effects is ridiculous.

Are we now replacing science with irrational fear when making decisions?

Sources:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2020806/#:~:text=Venous%20thrombosis%2C%20including%20deep%20vein,than%20women%20in%20older%20age.

https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/dvt/data.html

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