Dealing with perceptions related to thrombosis and COVID-19 vaccines

Abstract

To the Editor:To date, there have been around 178 million confirmed SARS CoV-2 infections, and more than 3 million deaths worldwide. The global war against COVID-19 has been fought mainly in three battlegrounds: the hospitals, the communities, and in the minds of people. As populations around the globe still struggle to establish or keep the public health strategies needed, they also face an infodemic, especially regarding vaccines.All vaccines can have rare adverse events, but during the pandemic, the report of isolated cases of blood clots associated to two of the anti-COVID vaccines that use adenovirus as a viral vector (AZD1222 and Johnson & Johnson) have raised concerns in the population, as well as emergency reviews, safety signals, and vaccination pauses. [...]