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Rare, dangerous side effects of some COVID-19 vaccines explained (www.science.org)

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Source paper: Adenoviral Inciting Antigen and Somatic Hypermutation in VITT

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 37 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The !hackernews cross-post of this link got something like 17 downvotes. And this one got three. As I read the science.org article, I'm wondering if most of those downvotes don't come from assumers equating this to anti-vaxx crap.

To be clear: the article is talking about the underlying mechanism of a rare side effect of one type of vaccine (AstraZeneca), already restricted in or dropped from multiple European countries*. It got replaced by safer vaccines, even if the 1/200k chance of triggering the side effect was not a big deal to begin with (specially given how many people COVID-19 was killing back then).

*and from Brazil since 2023. Source in Portuguese.