It certainly made for some alarming headlines: blood clots were forming, some fatal, in patients given the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine. If 11 million people took the Pill for a year then you might see 11,000 of them develop blood clots. Blood clots, known as venous thromboembolisms, typically develop in the legs, causing calf pain and swelling. Later, as her health worsened, she went to hospital, where a scan revealed a 'humungous' blood clot in her brain. Dutch data suggests as many as 30 per cent of coronavirus patients admitted to intensive care units developed blood clots.

Source: Daily Mail March 20, 2021 22:15 UTC