Originally Posted by
Sector3
Selective copying of information again. Why not include the rest of the article?
"The MHRA has received 439 UK reports of suspected ADRs to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in which the patient died shortly after vaccination, 936 reports for the COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca, five for the COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna and 23 where the brand of vaccine was unspecified. The majority of these reports were in elderly people or people with underlying illness. Usage of the vaccines has increased rapidly and as such, so has reporting of fatal events with a temporal association with vaccination however, this does not indicate a link between vaccination and the fatalities reported. Review of individual reports and patterns of reporting does not suggest the vaccines played a role in the deaths."
You haven’t read carefully enough.
The 5 deaths reported in my quote were specifically
thrombocytopenia, which has been directly linked to the AZ vaccine, and these 5 deaths were following a second dose.
Thrombocytopenia is normally such a rare condition that the spike in thrombocytopenia following AZ is now undisputedly linked to the vaccine.
The deaths in your quote are not all necessarily linked to a vaccine, as noted in the sentence prior to your bolded sentence.
I was specifically responding to dr dre who said he believed there had been zero
thrombocytopenia deaths following a second AZ dose. I merely point out that there is data for such deaths, and the data indicates that slightly over 90% of the deaths occurred after a first dose (65), and slightly under 10% after a second dose (5).
If people want to conduct their own risk management, they need the data, or they need a trusted GP.
The UK data therefore indicates a risk of 5 in 20M, (or 1 in 4M), if you survived the first dose of AZ and are considering a second dose. Your risk may be higher if you are younger.