Filenews 6 December 2021
Scientists believe they have found – for the first time – the mechanism that leads to extremely rare blood clots after AstraZeneca's vaccine against Covid-19.
A scientific team – in Cardiff and the US – showed in great detail how a protein in the blood is attracted to a key component of the vaccine.
They believe that this initiates a chain reaction, which includes the immune system and may lead to dangerous blood clots
The vaccine is believed to have saved about 1 million lives from Covid-19, according to the BBC.
However, concerns about rare blood clots have raised many issues in various countries of the world, such as not administering it to people under the age of 40 in the United Kingdom.
He also began a scientific "hunt" in order to find out what was not working properly. The Cardiff team was given extraordinary state funding to find the answers.
AstraZeneca scientists themselves also participated in the research project after the team published previous results.
An AstraZeneca spokesperson stressed that clots are more likely to occur due to Covid-19 infection than due to the vaccine and that the full explanation of why they occur has not yet been documented.
The team of researchers in Britain and the US showed in detail how a protein in the blood is attracted to a key component of the vaccine.
Scientists believe that this triggers a chain reaction in the immune system, which can result in dangerous clots.
These clots have been linked to 73 deaths out of the nearly 50 million deaths. doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine administered in Britain.
