Americans who received the one-dose J&J Covid vaccine were 3.5 times likely to develop blood clots – Daily Mail
Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine increases a person's risk of developing rare blood clots, a new study suggests.
Researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, compared data from the general population before the pandemic to data gathered from reported vaccine side-effects suffered by Americans.
They found that a person who received the vaccine was 3.5 times as likely to develop brain blood clots as an average person before the pandemic.
Blood clotting, and specifically cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is a well known side-effect of the J&J vaccine, and the discovery of this risk was the reason usage of the vaccine was paused in April.
However, the team insists the risk is rare and that the findings must be looked at in the context of the effectiveness of the...