BBC: The Danish Health Authority said studies had shown a higher than expected frequency of blood clots following doses, affecting about one in 40,000 people.

It comes after two cases of thrombosis in Denmark were linked to vaccinations, AFP reported. One of the cases, in a 60-year-old woman, was fatal.

Director General Soren Brostrom: The upcoming target groups for vaccination are less likely to become severely ill from Covid-19. We must weigh this against the fact that we now have a known risk of severe adverse effects from vaccination with AstraZeneca.

So that's common sense - vaccine recipients under 60 are unlikely to catch severe covid, there are other vaccine options, AZ causes blood clots - so why use it?

Most importantly it engages the public in a truthful dialogue that they can relate to - unlike the default stream of misinformation we hear in Australia where it's all just 'SHUT UP and take your jab!

Interestingly Denmark has identified blood clots as a 1 in 40 000 event - that's way lower than the one in 2 million that UK/Aus authorities were saying a couple of weeks ago. Given they produce AZ in Aus and the UK, i wonder which country's experts are lying?

Farhid Hemmatzadeh, University of Adelaide associate professor in virology The Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine is the safest vaccine that exists in the vaccine list. There is no proven link between any particular age, any particular sex, or any particular race in terms of hypersensitivity,"

Lara Herrero, virologist, Griffith University: W)e should be continuing to provide the AstraZeneca vaccine to women under 55.

Paul Kelly, Aus Chief Health Officer: The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is effective, it is safe, and it’s a high-quality vaccine. ... It is very effective and extremely safe for most people.

Prof Kelly said more than 11 million people had been vaccinated in the UK without evidence of an increase in blood clots.