Your questions about the AstraZeneca vaccine, answered – CBC

Manotick physician Dr. Alykhan Abdulla offers his thoughts on Ottawa Morning

Apr 23, 2021

With Ontarians as young as 40 now able to get the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine, more people are eligible to be vaccinated against COVID-19 than ever before.

But that also means more people are asking questions about it.

CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning recently invited Dr. Alykhan Abdulla, a family doctor who practises in Manotick, to answer some of the more common queries that have popped up.

How concerned should we be about blood clots?
That’s the question Abdulla says he gets the most, and he wants to be clear: people should not be worried.

“The risk is in the one-in-a-million range,” he said. “The results from Europe are showing that it tends to happen more frequently in younger patients and in women. But I want to reiterate: one in a million.”

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/faq-astrazeneca-oxford-vaccine-alykhan-abdulla-1.5998137