Listen for Concerns About Blood Clots With COVID-19 Vaccines

May 2021

Patients will ask whether COVID-19 vaccines cause blood clots.

This is due to reports of serious blood clots along with low platelets after the AstraZeneca or Johnson & Johnson/Janssen vaccine. Both are viral vector vaccines.

The risk is extremely RARE. For example, estimates show just a handful of cases per million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

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