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. 2021 Apr 17;397(10283):1441-1443.
doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00762-5. Epub 2021 Mar 30.

Thromboembolism and the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine: side-effect or coincidence?

Søren Dinesen Østergaard  1 , Morten Schmidt  2 , Erzsébet Horváth-Puhó  3 , Reimar Wernich Thomsen  3 , Henrik Toft Sørensen  3
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Thromboembolism and the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine: side-effect or coincidence?

Søren Dinesen Østergaard et al. Lancet. .
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SDØ received the 2020 Lundbeck Foundation Young Investigator Prize. All other authors declare no competing interests. The Department of Clinical Epidemiology is involved in studies with funding from various companies as research grants to (and administered by) Aarhus University. Author contributions and funding details are provided in the appendix.

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