[Varriount]

And yet, if vaccinations don't continue, it's highly likely more people would die, that otherwise may have lived.

  Paul Hunter, an infectious disease expert at the University of East Anglia, noted in a statement that even if the risk of CVT is raised by the vaccine to five or more cases per million people vaccinated, the COVID-19 infection fatality rate for men in their mid-40s is 0.1%, or 1000 deaths per million infected.

So it's a tricky problem. I do believe you are correct though - even just evidence of missed side effects would be like meat and drink to anti-vaccination sentiments.

[libertine]

The problem is the perceived risk, for many people getting COVID is avoidable if they take precautions, while the scenario of willingly take a vaccine that can result in death is way more darker.

A lot of young people won't even find the "relief" they got from knowing COVID is more lethal on the elderly, since this seems to be happening on younger females.

It's not an easy problem to fix, and I see a lot of people refusing this until they get to the bottom of the reason, a safe treatment for these cases. I'd say this will probably be the end of the road for AZ vaccine in a lot of places.

Not to mention the pile of fuck-ups AZ did for months in a row, they painted themselves as unreliable and liars to the public.

[mytailorisrich]

> The problem is the perceived risk

Communication helps a lot.

If you say "50 cases in 17 million injections" people might not know what that exactly means and might be worried simply by the way it is reported. Now, if instead you qualify the above with "which is less than the chance of dying in a car crash so it's very safe" then people may be unfazed.

I feel the main problem is the way this was reported, which created an overblown perceived risk.

[onetimemanytime]

Plus, what else might be hiding in the vaccine that we may find years from now?