News: A “fit and healthy” 55-year-old man from Tamworth died in hospital last week about a week after rolling up his sleeve.

Meanwhile, a 71-year-old Sydney man has also died after getting the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

(TGA) said .. no link between his death and the vaccine had yet been established.

Paul Griffin, infectious diseases physician and microbiologist at the University of Queensland: (M)ost of the time these sort of events will simply be a coincidence.

(T)hese events happen in a population all the time.. The vast majority will be shown to be a coincidence so we need to be really careful with jumping to conclusions.

We also need to be really careful about dismissing these blood clot deaths as a coincidence. The TGA has denied a link from the beginning, then we had a begrudging admission a month or so after the evidence became overwhelming, now we're back to denying each new case.

At some point AZ will be banned, as it already is in Denmark and South Africa. In the US it can't even get approval. Given the data we have, will TGA take responsibility for the deaths its denial of a link causes?