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Denmark Sees Plausible Link Between AstraZeneca Vaccine, Clots

AstraZeneca vaccines stored in Copenhagen. 

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Denmark, which has suspended AstraZeneca’s vaccine the past month, said there’s a plausible link between the shot and blood clots.

The side effect of patients getting so-called thrombosis in combination with thrombocytopenia is “very rare” but of a higher probability than in the general population, the Danish Medicines Agency said in a statement on Tuesday.