You might need a pinch of salt handy before reading this. A study out of Sweden claims that someone who comes down with covid, has an increased risk of developing a serious blood clot for six months.
According to the BBC:
The research found people with severe Covid, and those infected during the first wave, had the highest clot risk.
This highlights the importance of being vaccinated against the virus, the researchers say.
Blood clots can also occur after vaccination but the risk is far smaller, a major UK study found.
People who have had Covid-19 are more likely to develop a blood clot – particularly patients who have needed hospital treatment. Scientists wanted to find out when that risk returns to normal levels.
The researchers tracked the health of just over one million people who tested positive for Covid between February 2020 and May 2021 in Sweden, and compared them with four million people of the same age and sex who had not had a positive test.
After a Covid infection, they found an increased risk of:
- blood clots in the leg, or deep vein thrombosis (DVT), for up to three months
- blood clots in the lungs, or pulmonary embolism, for up to six months
- internal bleeding, such as a stroke, for up to two months
When the researchers compared the risks of blood clots after Covid to the normal level of risk, they found that:
- four in every 10,000 Covid patients developed DVT compared with one in every 10,000 people who didn’t have Covid
- about 17 in every 10,000 Covid patients had a blood clot in the lung compared with fewer than one in every 10,000 who did not have Covid
Frederick K Ho, public health lecturer from the University of Glasgow, said this study “reminds us of the need to remain vigilant to the complications associated with even mild [Covid] infection, including thromboembolism”……
The risk of blood clots goes up after vaccination, but “the magnitude of risk remains smaller and persists for a shorter period than that associated with infection”, he adds.
I’d like to know who funded the study. Sadly, I work alone. I don’t have a producer, researcher or editor.
This stinks though, doesn’t it?
I mean, it’s very timely. They’re pushing fourth and even fifth jabs on the so-called “most vulnerable.”
I can’t get my head around it. How could anyone be so stupid as to have a third dose, let alone a fifth one?
I have no doubt that there will be an increase in blood clots, thrombosis and strokes, especially among the elderly.
They’ve got their ready made excuse now, haven’t they?
