Here's what to know about the risk of blood clots and the AstraZeneca vaccine
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The UK's medicines regulator said that at least 30 people in the United Kingdom had experienced rare types of blood clots after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine, but warned it was too early to say whether the shot itself triggered the clots. Here's what we know.
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