The vote balance makes me pretty disappointed in Lemmy users right now (assuming the downvotes are all from different people, instead of 1-2 people nuking it with their alts). This is actual science, science.org is not known as an anti-vaccine publication, and both the article itself and the title call the side effects “rare”. Are these people that deep up their own asses that they will downvote literally anything that’s not screaming that every vaccine is good in any and all cases? That’s not science, that’s just belief in a dogma.

This was a really interesting read for me as someone who’s done immunology at uni, but might be harder to understand for others. However it’s still communicated really clearly so I would recommend anyone who’s interested to read it as I’m sure that the authors have done a good enough job to prevent education being a barrier to entry.

I’ll disclaim the rest of this comment by saying I gave the article a casual read and am putting minimal effort into this summary so am at risk of mischaracterising the article. It gave a more in depth explanation to why the Astra Zeneca COVID19 vaccine was dropped in a lot of places. Previously I just had a shallow understanding of an increased risk of dangerous blood clots, but the article did a great job of explaining more in depth what caused those blood clots (the development of unexpected autoimmune platelet antibodies). It also talked about the subsequent investigations and studies into what caused these reactions. One of the reasons it was such a rare side effect, 1 in 200,000 iirc from the article, is because it relied on both a rare side effect of the type of virus that they engineered to carry the vaccine into your body and a rare mutation in patients’ B Lymphocytes (an important white blood cell from your adaptive immune system that produces protective antibodies). It is standard in epidemiology to measure incidence, risk etc per 100,000 people, so the fact that this is only 1 in every 200,000 shows how rare this is, but because so many people were getting vaccinated against COVID the medical community still decided the risk was too great.

Sorry for any errors, hope my comment was helpful/interesting!

People should read the article before downvoting. It’s a good article.