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Thanks for the link. No treatment with immunoglobulin was given in this case, which might explain why it ended unfavorably.



Also, if you're interested, the team of doctors at three Norwegian hospitals have just published their case study of the 5 Norwegian healthcare workers who experienced these rare blood clots.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2104882

The authors conclude

"Although rare, VITT is a new phenomenon with devastating effects for otherwise healthy young adults and requires a thorough risk–benefit analysis. The findings of our study indicate that VITT may be more frequent than has been found in previous studies in which the safety of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine has been investigated."


Thanks, this report is, while describing rare events, sobering




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