18-year-old trainee nurse treated for three blood clots after AstraZeneca vaccine

Three blood clots appeared in the lungs three weeks after AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 a young woman from Australia, who is studying nursing, and had to be hospitalized.

Eli Pickock received the first dose of the vaccine on March 31, a week before the government recommended that AstraZeneca not be given to people under 50 years of age. Her case is being investigated but she believes there is a link between the clots and the vaccine, according to the Daily Mail.

The 18-year-old went to the hospital emergency room in Brisbane on April 18 with “signs thrombosis». However, the examination did not show blood clots and so she was sent home, with the pain subsiding.

The trainee nurse he then began to have frequent headaches and on May 7 he began to feel pain when he was breathing. Two days later a chest x-ray showed pneumonia. She had gone to the hospital again, complaining of back and rib pain.

He finally returned home but on May 11 he hurried to the intensive care unit, struggling to breathe.

“They sent me home within six hours without further testing and told me it was a normal pneumonia pain and that I had to endure the pain until the drugs started to take effect,” she said.

Two days later she visited her doctor, who sent her to the hospital because her oxygen levels were too low.

Then the three blood clots in the lung were discovered, as well as the low platelet count.

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