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This Morning’s Alison Hammond, 46, says she’s ‘so worried’ about having the Covid vaccine
THIS Morning's Alison Hammond has said she's "so worried" about having the Covid-19 vaccine.
The presenter, 41, opened up about her concerns during a segment on the ITV breakfast show earlier today.
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Alison and co-host Dermot O'Leary were joined by Professor Tim Spector from King's College London to talk about all thing coronavirus related.
The telly star made it clear that she feels anxious about her health if she does decide to get jabbed, and in particular highlighted the distress about getting a blood clot.
Despite the vaccine programme helping us get back normality, a small amount of people have developed a clot after having the AstraZeneca or Johnson & Johnson jab.
Alison confessed: "Professor, I'm so sorry to have to go back to the whole child thing, but I'm so worried about the vaccine myself because I really don't want to get a blood clot.
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"I've been talking about it the whole time, I don't want to get a blood clot.
"I don't want to die because I'm really enjoying this job and everything, it's absolutely amazing."
Alison, who is in the age range and gender of someone more likely to develop a blood clot, went on to confess that she also feels uneasy about the fact that it may also make her 15-year-old son Aiden ill too.
She continued: "But so if I'm really worried about myself, I'm even more worried about my son.
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"Can you guarantee he's not going to get ill if he takes that vaccine?
"Our children are the most precious things in the world and I just don't want him to get ill from taking the vaccine if he wasn't really going to get Covid anyway."
Professor Tim Spector definitely put Alison at ease with his response.
He replied: "Your risk if you got Covid is very much more than having a blood clot which is around one in 300,000, it's extremely low.
Know the signs
The UK's medicine regulator, the MHRA, says you should seek medical advice if you have had any of these symptoms four days or more after vaccination with the AstraZeneca vaccine:
- a new onset of severe or persistent headache
- blurred vision
- confusion
- seizures
- shortness of breath
- chest pain
- leg swelling
- persistent abdominal pain
- unusual skin bruising or pinpoint round spots beyond the injection site
These symptoms may have been related to the AstraZeneca vaccine if they were within 28 days of the shot.
There is no suggestion at the moment that the blood clots related to the Janssen vaccine have different symptoms.
But the CDC also warn of:
- "gut pain that does not go away".
"You're much more likely to get long Covid and be sick for several months.
"For kids, we're not seeing problems with the vaccine in those countries that are doing it so far.
"We've got to make this balance between wanting to get schools back to normal. It's never going to be 100pc safe."
As of April 24, 2021, around 16 people out of the eight million people vaccinated with Johnson & Johnson in the US have developed a blood clot.
Does the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine cause blood clots?
UK body, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency weekly summary of vaccine side effects said: “On the basis of this ongoing scientific review, it has been concluded that the evidence of a link with Covid-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca is stronger, but more work is still needed.”
European regulators have been more concrete in their findings.
Speaking at the European Medicines Agency briefing on April 7, Dr Sabine Straus, EMA safety committee chairwoman, said: “Our conclusion is that these clotting disorders are very rare side effects of the vaccine."
The “unusual” blood clotting should be listed as a “possible side effect of the vaccine”, the EMA's safety committee decided.
For all the Covid-19 vaccines, England’s deputy chief medical officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam has previously described blood clots as "vanishingly rare" but "quite serious".
The MHRA said the overall incidence of blood clots with low platelets after a first dose is put at 10.5 per million doses, and about one in a million for a second dose.
There have been 49 deaths, meaning the odds of someone getting a fatal blood clot is 2.1 per million.
But this goes up to 4.5 for those aged 30 to 39.
The MHRA gives a weekly update on figures .
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The AstraZeneca jab has been linked to 209 cases of blood clots in the UK which have led to Brits losing their lives.
As younger people appear to be more affected, people under 30 in the UK are now not being offered the AstraZeneca.
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Just last week it was revealed that scientists claim to have cracked the cause of rare blood clots linked to Covid jabs and say they know how to solve it.
They claim it is caused by “floating mutant proteins” which can occur when a vaccine sends the spike protein of the Sars-Cov-2 virus into the wrong part of a cell.
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