Health
These blood clot experts want you to get a Covid-19 vaccine. Here’s why. – CNN
It will be ironic if fear of blood clots keeps people from getting coronavirus vaccines. Covid-19 itself causes blood clots — lots of them.
(CNN)It was just about a year ago that doctors started noticing Covid-19 patients showing up in emergency rooms with strokes, and complained that blood clots were clogging up dialysis machines and other equipment being used to keep coronavirus patients alive.
Frantic intensive care unit specialists reported “dramatic” blood clots in the heart, liver and other organs. Autopsies of coronavirus victims in New Orleans showed their lungs were jammed with clots.
Some young, seemingly healthy patients…
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