The risk of blood clots after the Astrazeneca vaccine compared to the threat of Covid: People in their 20s had about a one in 90,000 chance of developing the side effect. The European medical regulator the EMA decided against restricting the AstraZeneca vaccine for any age group yesterday, saying that blood clots should be listed as a 'very rare' side effect. According to the MHRA the chance of suffering blood clots after receiving the AstraZeneca jab was 0.000095 per cent. All the answers to your questions about the jab's link to blood clotsAstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine is once again under the spotlight, amid growing fears it may trigger extremely rare blood clots. No evidence currently exists to say there is any link between getting AstraZeneca's top-up vaccine and getting potentially deadly blood clots.

Source: The Nation April 08, 2021 15:00 UTC