Don’t miss out on getting vaccine, urge MPs, Senators amid concerns over rare blood clots

The political instinct is to ‘accept no risk’ when solving a problem, but that’s not how the ‘real world of medicine’ works, says former emergency-room doctor and Liberal MP Marcus Powlowski.

Liberal MP Marcus Powlowski, left, Independent Senator Donna Dasko, centre, and Liberal MP John McKay, right, all pictured in 2019, have gotten their COVID-19 vaccine shot.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY PALAK MANGAT

April 16, 2021

Though it’s understandable many are wary of lining up for AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine amid reports of rare blood clots, passing up the opportunity to be innoculated would be a “foolish” decision, say experts and Parliamentarians who have already gotten thei...

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