Clotting factors: the AstraZeneca vaccine
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
British and European regulators have addressed a possible link with blood clots. Expect more rare side-effects to emerge; what seems clear for now is that the vaccine’s benefits outweigh any risks. A new analysis shows that a racist American film from 1915 left a long legacy of racial violence. And a shady history of the function and fashion of sunglasses.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on a Conest Radio. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:09.1 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:17.0 | The 1915 film The Birth of a Nation was a sensation across America, except in the places |
| 0:23.9 | where its racist message was banned outright. |
| 0:27.2 | We look at new research that shows an explicit and troubling link to racist violence wherever |
| 0:32.2 | the film was shown. |
| 0:34.4 | And sunglasses have long been more about fashion than function, but it wasn't always that way. |
| 0:40.3 | We peer through the tinted history of shades, from slits carved in ivory to a handmade pair perched on the nose of a pioneering physicist. |
| 0:48.3 | First up, though, European and British regulators released their conclusions yesterday about a possible link between blood clots and the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID vaccine. |
| 1:08.9 | The Prague, after a very in-depth analysis, has concluded that the reported cases of unusual |
| 1:16.3 | blood clotting following vaccination with the AstraZeneca vaccine should be listed as |
| 1:22.8 | possible side effects of the vaccine. |
| 1:25.6 | The reviews were carried out after a small number of reports that those who received the |
| 1:30.2 | AstraZeneca jab went on to develop blood clots in the brain or abdomen, leading to a total |
| 1:35.2 | of 18 deaths in Europe and 19 in Britain. |
| 1:39.0 | Wei Shen Lim, chair of Britain's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization, said a |
| 1:43.9 | different vaccine would be offered to people under 30. |
| 1:46.8 | We are not advising a stop to any vaccination for any individual in any age group. |
| 1:52.9 | We are advising a preference for one vaccine over another vaccine for a particular age group, |
| 2:00.6 | really out of the utmost caution, |
| 2:03.9 | rather than because we have any serious safety concerns. |
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