Posted: May 14, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 14
The two-million-plus Canadians who received the AstraZeneca vaccine made the right choice and should not regret their decision, health experts say.(Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)
The more than two million Canadians who received the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine made the right choice and should not regret their decision, health experts say, despite the fact that some provinces are pausing rollout of the vaccine over concerns about the risk of rare blood clots.
In fact, Dr. David Naylor, co-chair of the national COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, thanked those who received the AstraZeneca vaccine, saying their actions protected them and others around them.
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A woman in her 40s has become the first person in B.C. to develop blood clots after taking the AstraZeneca vaccine.
“We have had our first case of vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia, that we have seen around the world and across the country,” provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said on Thursday.
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“This was following receipt of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination, and the person is a woman in their 40s. She is stable and currently receiving treatment in hospital in the Vancouver Coastal Health (region).”
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A healthcare worker administers a COVID-19 vaccine from Humber River Hospital’s mobile vaccination clinic. (Photo: Cole Burston/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
While provinces across Canada are lowering the age of eligibility for AstraZeneca from 55-plus to 40-plus, the vaccine’s link to extremely rare blood clots may still be a source of hesitancy for many women.
Reports of the vaccine-related clots emerged in early March, with most of the cases in Europe involving women under the age of 55. Canada’s first four cases out of more than 1.1 million doses of vaccines administered popped up in April: a Quebec woman over the age of 55; a man from Alberta and a man from Ontario, both in their 60s; and an individual in New Brunswick in their 30s. All of them received the AstraZeneca vaccine.
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