'Substantially higher' risk of stroke from Covid-19 than from AstraZeneca vaccine - expert

A vial of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. File Picture

There is a “substantially higher” risk of suffering a stroke through Covid than from taking the AstraZeneca vaccine, according to an expert on strokes.

Clinical Lead of the Irish national audit of stroke, Professor Joe Harbison told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland that “one to two percent” of people hospitalised with Covid-19 during the first wave of the pandemic suffered stroke.