Australia phased out AstraZeneca in March last year (2023)
In Australia, the last case of TTS reported by the Therapeutic Goods Administration was in December 2021.1 At that time, the rates of TTS were estimated to be:
about 2 per 100,000 people vaccinated with AstraZeneca aged 60 years or older.
about 2 to 3 per 100,000 people vaccinated with AstraZeneca under 60 years of age.
A range of severity of illness was reported in Australia. Some cases were relatively mild, some had significant morbidity, and some were fatal.
The overall case fatality rate in Australia was lower than reported internationally.
This was likely due to increased detection due to increased awareness, as well as early diagnosis and treatment.
Most issues in the few cases presented within a month ( 4 - 42 days, mostly sooner than later ).
The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) has been telling us this for years now.
I keep hearing and reading stories saying that merely catching covid 19 caused this and caused that medical problem. Take long covid for instance.
The problem for me is that all those people complaining about long covid have also had the jab, so how do we know that it was not the jab that has caused long covid.
I dont do "The science" agende driven experts seen on TV.
I will happily wait for the proper time conscious science to appear out of the mist.
There is always some small nugget of truth hidden in conspiracy theories.
Except of course for you lizards living on the dark side of the moon.
Suppose you want to know whether a vaccine or covid itself causes long covid, and you're in a country such as Belgium, with about 11 million inhabitants, of which about 10 million were vaccinated. What you do then is look for some "before" groups. In this case maybe you'd find 10k people who spent a night in hospital for covid and weren't vaccinated, 10k people who spent a night in hospital and had gotten the AZ vaccine, 10 ditto Biontech vaccine, etc.
You make sure that the groups are similar (e.g. the same percentage of teenagers, same percentage of overweight people, same percentage of people who play sports, same percentage of people who've been admitted to hospital in the past years, etc).
Your assumption that "everyone got the jab" is wrong, even for a country like Belgium: small and with a high vaccination rate. Finding ten thousand unvaccinated people isn't a problem.
Then you query the data for the "after", in this case whether people got long covid. If you find out that, say, 30% of the people who had covid and a particular vaccine got long covid, while 30% of the people who had covid and no vaccine got long covid, you then conclude that this vaccine neither protects against nor causes long covid, ie. long covid is entirely caused by covid itself.
There are statistical ways to be estimate how confident you can be in a conclusion and lots of other bells and whistles, but the part above is really the core.
Furthermore, this is 3 years old news - https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/astrazenecas-covid-19-vacc...