Hope all continues to go well for you. I read a good deal about the blood clots, and the connection to A-Z vaccine is inconclusive. The population getting the AZ vaccine is older, and older people are more prone to blood clots. All three of the major vaccines have been connected to lower platelet counts (you can get blood clots with low platelets), but it's hard to say if this is a big problem. There have been deaths associated with brain bleeds from clots, but whether they were caused by the vaccine is not known. People are being careful to avoid repeating the problem until they are sure the vaccine isn't the culprit. But so far, there's no real compelling evidence to link it as a cause.
We are waiting for my husband to get an appt here. The Dutch have been distributing BioNTech/Pfizer (that's what I got) and will also use AZ, so we have no idea what the deal is. We are thinking of seeing a Dutch doc to see if his pre-existing health conditions and role as caretaker for an elderly parent might help him secure an appt. The more people get vaccinated the sooner the proliferation that has been fostering new harder to control variants can be tamped down.
