[LINK] Accidental intravenous injection of AstraZenica as potential mechanism for post-vaccination TTS.

[David]

On 2021-07-05 12:35, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> Interesting! Someone who I think was a nurse, can't remember who, was appalled that the injections were NOT being pulled back to be sure there was no blood. They were watching the endless TV videos of injections being given. From this article, it seems they were on to something.

As was my Partner, a highly qualified (but now retired) Paediatric Nurse.  She observed months ago that people videoed while doing vaccinations rarely pulled back but she was trained to _always_ do so.  It seems the practice now is to inject into shoulder muscle where the chance of hitting a blood vessel is "very low" rather than further down (i.e. closer to  the elbow), and it's "difficult" to pull back with fine needles now used.

And many thanks, Kim, for that reference.  I've been doing a little amateur research on the AZ clotting problem, partly because I have an ongoing interest in medical matters but mainly because of a possible susceptibility to HIT-like reactions.  I haven't read your reference yet, but have wondered for some time whether the mechanisms involved in HIT are similar, especially regarding the formation of haptens and subsequent development of of an auto-immune condition where the immune system cleans up its' own platelets.  I presume this may or may not result in a noticeable thrombosis, but it's likely to place extra load on the kidneys.

David Lochrin