..I went back to EMA press conference to check my tweets. Peter Arlett from EMA said: (at ~40 mins) Since the trial "There have been 3 cases with the J&J vaccine of blood clots associated with low platelets which have some similarities to these cases...2/4
...that we’ve been describing today for AstraZeneca vaccine. However the numbers are extremely small compared to the 4.5 million patients vaccinees that have received the J&J vaccine worldwide.” (~51 mins) "…if you look at those reports of blood clots with thrombocytopenia...3/4
...for those other vaccines & then compare them to the background rates we would expect to see, they are not raised.”

So it's 1 in the original 1-dose trial, 3 post-marketing in the US. None reported from the 2-dose trial or from South Africa. Rate not higher-than-expected
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