Surely we'd never allow any medicine with such a potential side effect to stay on the market, no matter how small.
Oh what? Birth control pills exist? Weeeeiiird.
Thinks about all the medications advertised on TV with liver failure, etc., as a potential side effect. Or the potential side effects of the basic flu vaccine
It’s like people forget we live with and do things that have more risk than some of these things every day.
We put healthy women on birth control all the time.To be fair risk tolerance with medicines depends on its purpose. You can tolerate more risk if the medicine is to be used to treat someone with terminal cancer, for example. With vaccines, very little risk is normally tolerated because they are administered to healthy people. That said, we are in a pandemic, so the risk tolerance threshold with those vaccines is much lower than it would usually be (hence why many countries are still using AZ but adding age restrictions where they calculate that risk of COVID complications outweigh the risk of side-effects). Plus you have to consider that we have the mRNA vaccines which don't have this issue. Availability of those in each country comes into the equation for the various regulatory agencies too.
And with all that said, acetominophen is still an over the counter drug even though it's incredibly dangerous.
Research published in The Lancet found that oral contraceptives tripled the risk of blood clots, a risk which only further increased with obesity and a family history of blood clots.
According to UN figures from 2019, 842 million people use hormonal contraceptives. When it comes to hormonal methods of birth control, especially those that use estrogen, the person taking these pills is at a higher risk of blood clots.
Birth control creates higher risk of blood clots than AstraZeneca vaccine
Several countries are suspending use of AstraZeneca due to reports of blood clots - people are highlighting the risk of blood clots posed by contraceptives
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