Health officials are concerned that younger women in particular may refuse the AstraZeneca jab. Photograph: Dinendra Haria/Rex
Health officials are concerned that younger women in particular may refuse the AstraZeneca jab. Photograph: Dinendra Haria/Rex
Sun 4 Apr 2021 04.00 EDT
Health officials are becoming increasingly worried that younger people will reject Covid jabs as concerns about the AstraZeneca vaccine continue to grow. A total of 30 cases of rare blood clots have been linked to the jab in the UK, resulting in seven deaths. Eighteen million doses of the vaccine have been administered so far.
It is feared that younger women will be particularly anxious and may refuse to accept the vaccine because two-thirds of patients with these types of blood clots are female.