Norman Swan

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What's That Rash? · Is there such a thing as knowing too much? · 15 Apr 2021 podcast

But for some reason these fundamentalist groups are against it, which is why I've had measle outbreaks measles outbreaks in the United States.

Yeah.

And so it's a real problem in Israel getting that next level up and getting beyond that vaccine hesitancy or even vaccine rejection in those groups.

Let's go.

It sounds sensible, but the experts are strongly recommending against this.

And the reason is that this is not a normal clotting situation.

First of all, it's controversial whether aspirin itself helps when you've got venous thrombosis of the regular kind.

And secondly, aspirin can also cause hemorrhage.

And in a significant proportion of the patients who have this immune reaction to the platelets, this thrombo.

Thrombocytopenia, they also get hemorrhage.

Because remember, what they've got here is a double whammy.

They've got sticky platelets that cause clotting, but they've not got very many platelets, and you need platelets for blood clotting.

So the blood, the platelets, this is a huge paradox.

So the platelets are being chewed up by the antibody effect.

Their platelets that remain are causing serious clotting, which leaves even fewer platelets left.

And because you've got fewer platelets, you're more prone to to hemorrhage.

So you get clot and hemorrhage existing at the same time.

And aspirin can increase the risk of hemorrhage.

So you've got to be really careful what you do here.

Well your doctor shouldn't be vaccinating with a sixteen week gap.

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