Vaccine-associated blood clot death: a micromort thinking

Tuan Nguyen
4 min readApr 18, 2021

The unfortunate post-vaccinated death of a 48 yr old woman last week has raised concerns about the safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine (Vaxzevria). Here, I offer my interpretation of the risk in terms of micromort, and then my analysis of risk and benefit of the vaccination program.

Quantifying risk in micromort

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Tuan Nguyen

osteoporosis | epidemiology | genetics | biostatistics | data enthusiast