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by CookiesOnMyDesk 1920 days ago
The risk from pregnancy is way higher than the risk from covid. You'd accept a 5% risk to avoid a 10% risk, but you wouldn't accept a .5% risk to avoid a .001% risk. From the vaccine blood clot data it looks like ~.07 thousands of a percent die from blood clots, while for young people the risk of death from covid is around ~.7 thousands of a percent. Thus if a) the blood clots are caused by the AZ vaccine, and b) the risk of getting covid as an individual is <10%, taking the AZ vaccine carries a higher risk of death than not taking it does.