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World Today News Highlights Cushman Study on COVID-19 Vaxx and Blood Clot Risk

April 25, 2023 by Lucy Gardner Carson

(APRIL 25, 2023) Mary Cushman, M.D., M.Sc., professor of medicine and of pathology & laboratory medicine, is a co-author of a study on COVID-19 vaccines and their alleged risk of causing blood clots that was highlighted in World Today News.

Mary Cushman, M.D., M.Sc.

(APRIL 25, 2023) Mary Cushman, M.D., M.Sc., professor of medicine and of pathology & laboratory medicine, is a co-author of a study on COVID-19 vaccines and their alleged risk of causing blood clots that was highlighted in World Today News. The study confirmed that — contrary to the claims of anti-vaxxers — vaccines against COVID-19 present only a very minimal risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE), or blood clots; and furthermore, that becoming infected with COVID-19 is what actually creates a significant risk of blood clots.

Led by researchers from the State University of New York at Buffalo with co-authors from the Department of Veterans Affairs, Knowledge-Based Systems, the Western New York VA Health Care System, Harvard Medical School, and UVM’s Larner College of Medicine, the study was published February 1 in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science.

This research was also covered in The Good Men Project.

Read full story at World Today News