Blood clots, grieving and the emotion of screams

BBC Inside Science

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Technology, Science

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The story of what we understand about the rare cases of blood clots associated with certain Covid-19 vaccines is constantly evolving. In today’s programme Professor Beverley Hunt looks at the emerging evidence. How have the restrictions due to Covid 19 affected how we grieve? Professor Claire White, an expert in grief and mourning, is investigating what it means to the grief process when the traditional ways of acknowledging death are changed. Sascha Fruholz has the unenviable task of listening to people scream all day, but he has made some surprising discoveries about which types of scream people are best able to identify.

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1:03.5	But I want to start with a constantly evolving story of what we understand about the rare cases
1:09.3	of blood clots associated with certain vaccines.
1:12.8	America's federal health authorities have recommended pausing the use of the Johnson and Johnson
1:18.0	single-shot COVID vaccine after six cases of severe blood clots were reported among the nearly
1:23.8	seven million Americans who've taken it.
1:26.0	The US Food and Drink Administration said it was acting out of an abundance of caution.
1:31.3	People under 30 in the UK it to be offered alternatives to the AstraZeneca vaccine
1:36.0	after regulators here and in the EU identified a potential link to rare blood clots.
1:41.4	Officials say the benefits still outweigh the risks.
1:44.6	What's going on?
1:46.1	In a paper last week, Dr Sabina Eichinger from the University of Vienna described one of those
1:52.0	very rare cases.
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