A rare gene combined with exposure to a mystery pathogen may have caused the deadly blood clotting issues that plagued AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine.
Exactly what caused the clots has remained a mystery. But this month a team of Australian scientists led by Flinders University’s head of immunology Professor Tom Gordon reported in the journal“This was very unusual,” Gordon said. “In 35 years of looking at blood autoantibodies I have never seen anything like this.”AstraZeneca’s vaccine is built around an adenovirus vector – a harmless virus modified to carry the genetic code of COVID-19’s spike protein.
Working with rogue antibody samples from five people in Adelaide who suffered clots after the vaccine – including one person who died – Gordon’s team made several key discoveries.
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