Blood clot suitability increases with age, my blood clot was most likely caused by dehydration in 2017. Blood clots are responsible for 10% of deaths in Australia and 30,000 thrombosis cases.
In 2021, there were cases of blood clots linked to the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Australia registered 27 confirmed and six probable cases of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) out of more than two million AstraZeneca doses administered.
Unvaccinated Australians aged 50 and over had a mortality rate 12-fold higher than those who received three doses, according to computer simulations from Monash University and RMIT. The new research, which assessed the impact of Australia’s vaccine rollout in NSW during the end of the Delta wave and arrival of Omicron, suggests 17,760 deaths were prevented over the 12-month period – a ‘conservative first approximation’ based on the available data
