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What is VITT, the blood clotting disorder linked to the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine?

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine has been under scrutiny since the pharmaceutical giant claimed it could only cause one rare side effect, blood clotting. A few cases of vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (VITT) appeared in 2021. Now, an Australian study has shed a little more light. But what is this condition?

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