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COVISHIELD vaccine and Blood Clots

I have been receiving phone calls from my relatives and concerned patients regarding the recent news about  COVISHIELD vaccine being withdrawn from market due to blood clots. ( Since AstraZeneca has accepted a link between the vaccine and rare side effect of Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome -TTS). Concerned calls are mostly from people who have previously taken COVISHIELD vaccine.

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JN 1 COVID Virus– the old villain with new forms

After the 3rd wave of COVID it has been around a year that the world remained calm without spurts of COVID related threats. But since December 2023 Indians are been on alert for the new variant of Corona virus- namely COVID JN1 virus.
It is currently a concern and is considered as a variant of interest by World Health Organization because globally there are significant number of people infected with COVID JN1 virus.

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A simple blood test which gave new hopes in a desperate man with multiple blood vessel disease.

Dr. Sanoop Kumar Sherin Sabu M.D., (Int Med) 2 weeks back, a 56-year-old gentle man, who had been on review else where consulted me for optimization of his drugs and reevaluation of his health status on a Sunday Clinic on December 2023. He was a diabetic for 10 years, with history of coronary artery disease-

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