Doctor explains science behind AstraZeneca’s admission Covid jab can cause blood clots

A doctor explained the science behind AstraZeneca's admission that Covid jab can cause blood clots.Source: This Morning, ITV

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00:00 The reason that it happens is if you think about how vaccines work,

00:03 is they take the genetic combination of the COVID, the genetic makeup, they snip it up,

00:08 they then put it into the vaccine and then that goes into an injection into your bloodstream.

00:13 What we realised was that in really rare cases for some people it actually triggered off their

00:18 factor 4 protein as well. So instead of the virus or the immune system thinking that it's

00:23 factor 4 protein is actually a virus or is it part of your body, what it started doing was

00:28 putting other platelet cells around that factor 4 protein. And that's what caused the clot? That

00:32 travelled around the bloodstream and that's what caused the clot. And so we know that this is the

00:36 case with actually with a lot of other vaccines, not just AstraZeneca vaccine. And so it's really

00:42 difficult to now prise apart what it is in regards to what was happening with the AstraZeneca vaccine

00:47 and this is why the families have taken this to court. So it's not with all vaccines though,

00:52 so Moderna, the Pfizer vaccine, there are even lesser risks. When we are putting something out

00:58 into the community to save millions and millions of lives as we did in the pandemic.