A&E ‘swamped’ with patients seeking help for mild Covid jab side-effects

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People who have had the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine are seeking help at A&E despite having only mild side-effects such as headaches, in the wake of the controversy over whether the jab causes blood clots.

Emergency medicine doctors in England told the Health Service Journal that a growing but unspecified number of people who were anxious after having the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab were coming to A&E units, some apparently after being advised to do so by a GP.

Dr Katherine Henderson, the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, confirmed the trend to the Guardian.

“It’s definitely a thing. Colleagues across England are reporting this. All A&E departments are seeing an increase in the number of people reporting concerns after having the AstraZeneca vaccine. We are seeing people with mild headaches and persistent headaches but who are otherwise alright.

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A&E ‘swamped’ with patients seeking help for mild Covid jab side-effects

Emergency departments report surge in cases of headaches linked to AstraZeneca jab amid concerns of blood clots
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Inevitable, really :(
 
So they listen to Government advice when they're told to panic - but otherwise eg 2m distance, facemasks, no gatherings etc - they don't.
 
Isn't it weird - personally I mean - conflict of interest ever since they told you you have diabetes. Primarily, every one of us has to look after number one, most likely far more often on a daily basis than others - but at the same time for the last year, also look out for everyone else. Not like we've ever had to do that before, is it ? - I mean nobody normal has any eg children, pets, or elderly/unwell relatives or friends they have to look out for .....
 
i don't really know what people expect a+e to do once this stuff is in the system there is no going back.

as soon as it was mentioned on radio and in news articles i was half expecting this mad panic to start.

it doesn't give people much confidence when radio 2 announces that there was no link between astra and blood clots and at the same time astra was been investigated to see if there was a blood clot link bit of a mixed message.
 
mikeydt1 said:
i don't really know what people expect a+e to do once this stuff is in the system there is no going back.
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As I understand it there are treatments for blood clots including these very rare ones. (No idea whether A&E is the right place to go. I thought they were recommending GPs.)

(MHRA and EMA seemed to think it was important for patients and HCPs to understand the symptoms, anyway.)
 
i have seen first hand what can happen when someone gets a blood clot. there were no symptoms to start following stenting we both thought things were fine then bang the stroke happened. it was thought to be a clot what had been dislodge.

some people will get pain with blood clots depending where it is.

the problem with those now injected with the vaccine is where do the doctors look the brain, the lung, the leg, see what i mean and they just can't stick millions through ct scans who turn up because they have had the jab it is a tricky situation.

the gov had plenty of warnings about this issue but just laughed it off bragging how many millions they had done.
 
mikeydt1 said:
the problem with those now injected with the vaccine is where do the doctors look the brain, the lung, the leg, see what i mean and they just can't stick millions through ct scans who turn up because they have had the jab it is a tricky situation.
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I don't think they're particularly worried about blood clots in general. They've noted that blood clots after vaccination are, if anything, a little lower than in the general population.

Rather, they're hoping to catch some of these very rare blood clots associated with low platelet counts. I presume they have evidence that those particular events were associated with severe headaches, and (I think) they can test for the low platelet counts. Dunno what treatment options there are, but I presume they're thinking they have something. (And not all of the people so far affected have died which I imagine means that doctors did something, though it does seem to be about half [actually closer to a quarter] which feels pretty bad. Though still very rare.)
 
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