Norman Swan

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What's That Rash? · I've had my first Astra shot. What now? · 17 Jun 2021 podcast

And I think that the emotional impact on clinicians of the 52-year-old woman in Sydney who died suddenly of a catastrophic stroke and really started to question.

People started to question whether or not we should change the rules here, even though this is still incredibly rare.

And what happened yesterday at the press conference is that Paul Kelly, the chief medical officer, announced a further 12 cases of vaccine-induced clotting syndrome, or what they call TTS, thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome.

Of those 12 cases, seven were in people aged 50 to 50.

And what the Commonwealth acknowledged was this changed the incidence rate in the 50 to 59 year old age group from under two per 100,000 to I think 2.5, 2.7, but certainly well into the twos.

Still rare, but it changed the equation.

It's still happening, but it's v it's very rare to get the uh the the severe end of the syndrome.

There's two kind of forms of the syndrome.

It's important for people to know this, because turning up early to your doctor or to the emergency department is really important here.

Between four and thirty days after your asterocine, headache, blurred vision, maybe even slurred speech, abdominal pain.

That's kind of the tier one, more serious end of the disease.

But a pain in your calf.

And maybe shortness of breath is the other end where people don't get into such ser serious strife and or tend not to.

Yes, there is at the moment.

Um, because as the cluster in Sydney is testament to, we are still vulnerable to outbreaks.

That's a delta outbreak, it could spread and you just wanna be protected.

And the risk is low and it's particularly low for the over sixties, and we sh you and people should get it.

But again, if you're really feeling anxious you could wait until Pfizer comes along, but

You are going to be at the end of a queue, uh, over sixty at the moment until supplies really increase.

So to get yourself protected and to provide some degree of protection for the community, you should you know, you should seriously consider the astro shot.

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