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> we found specific antibodies against blood platelets

So are they claiming that this is actually due to the vaccine formulation itself, i.e. does this finding exclude the initial hypothesis of a Quality issue or a specific 'bad batch' of the vaccine?

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the news article doesn't say; it attributes a quote to the doctor saying "it's the vaccine" but it's unclear whether that means "bad batch".

Personally, if 3 health workers all go to the same hospital in a remote region complaining of clots, it's more likely that something local happened (as you say, QA, or any number of other sources).

The article is a very poor quality summary. The articles in VG are much better. I put a quote from one and a translation elsewhere on this HN page.

I've read all of them so far and I still think the professor was being irresponsible in his wording and the press is being dumb for amplifying it.

It‘s not local, there have been similar cases in Germany and Italy, with confirmed deaths.

The committee "concluded that the vaccine is not associated with an increase in the overall risk of thromboembolic events, or blood clots," Cooke said.

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