Nobody has investigated 7 million doses, so its at least 7, but probably more. The UK incidence rate (for the same issue in the AZ vax) was like 10X what was initially reported.
And its probable that these incidents are concentrated in a small segment of the population (young & health maybe women). So your denominator is very inflated.
If you can save 20-40 lives by just giving young women Pfizer and using J&J on 50+ year olds (for whom the risk might be literally nothing) then its a no brainer.
Not doing so is killing 20-40 people for no reason.
Yes this is the rationale Canadian authorities have used in making AZ 55+ only here. Some calculation based on risk of COVID mortality in that population vs the hypothetical AZ risk. At first I was skeptical of this but the more I read about it the more it seems like a reasonable approach.
Even more so because here in Canada we do not have much AZ yet anyways (and no J&J yet), mostly Pfizer and Moderna.
And its probable that these incidents are concentrated in a small segment of the population (young & health maybe women). So your denominator is very inflated.
If you can save 20-40 lives by just giving young women Pfizer and using J&J on 50+ year olds (for whom the risk might be literally nothing) then its a no brainer.
Not doing so is killing 20-40 people for no reason.