Spain, Germany, France and Italy have become the latest European countries to temporarily halt the rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine over a small number of blood clot concerns, going against the advice of international medical agencies as a third wave of infections looms over the continent.
The original source for Germany is the Paul-Ehrlich-Institute:
Many news sources (including the submission) miss the aspect that it isn’t about normal “blood clots.”
Because the thrombosis has not only affected the brain, for example I know in Italy there have been cases of bowel infarction.
Here there is a preprint about the mechanism (12 Feb 2021): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3781903