In direct response, I'm not convinced by the bland statistical figures being presented. They are yearly statistics but the probability of those happening within a five day period of a year will be different. Also, over the next year will any of the other 14 million get clearly unrelated blood clots and we don't know how many non-related thrombotic events have taken place in this time period. i.e. it may be coincidental or it may be an additive event. You can't use annual statistics to support an event that happened last week. As an aside, what age group gets these blood clots compared with the Norwegian experience? Spiegelhalter said it was older age groups and the Norwegian events weren't. I'm usually impressed with Spiegelhalter but he said there was, statistically, no evidence the vaccine causes these thrombotic events. You would usually look for a null hypothesis to prove the opposite to show statistical improbability. i.e. you go out of your way to prove the opposite of the hypothesis you hold.
As an individual I'd be happy to have the jab (as I have) and I believe it's right for the greater good, but I can understand why medical people want to establish the vaccine is not causing these events by more than a statistical analysis, particularly as this vaccine could become our annual protection. Every ADR "yellow card" event should be analysed on its own merits. This is no small matter as there have been approximately 50,000 "yellow cards" with 11,000,000 AZN vaccinations - we have invested in an AI system to specifically analyse the data.
It's a big decision to pause vaccinations though, but when there are alternatives and generally lower death rates than ours, you can see why some countries may be cautious, particularly when the AZ vaccine deliveries are continuing below their contractual numbers.