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Vaccine-induced antibodies attach to a protein involved in blood clotting at a similar spot that the anticoagulant drug heparin does, spurring platelets to form clots, researchers report July 7 in Nature.

Four of the vaccine recipients of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine were treated initially with heparin, an anticoagulant that is not recommended because the events closely resemble an immune-triggered reaction to the drug that could worsen the clots.

There was an initial concern that people with the condition might be treated with the anticoagulant heparin, which can worsen it.

Four of those vaccine recipients were treated initially with heparin, an anticoagulant that is not recommended because the events closely resemble an immune-triggered reaction to the drug that could worsen the clots.

That would make the condition similar to low platelet levels and blood clots sparked by an immune response to the anticoagulant drug heparin.

I was in intensive care for five days, hooked up to an anticoagulant drip.