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COVID-19 Frequently Asked Questions:

Q: Whether cardiac senior citizens patients taking blood thinner as medicine can go ahead for taking double dose of COVID vaccination?

Yes. Vaccination in senior citizen with underlying cardiac disorder taking concurrent blood thinners like aspirin and other anti platelets may continue to take double dose of COVID 19 vaccination. Vaccination in them are absolutely safe.

Whether cardiac senior citizens patients taking blood thinner as medicine can go ahead for taking a double dose of COVID vaccination?

Yes. Vaccination in senior citizens with underlying cardiac disorder taking concurrent blood thinners like aspirin and other antiplatelets may continue to take a double dose of COVID 19 vaccination. Vaccination in them is absolutely safe.

Answered by:

DR. VISWESVARAN BALASUBRAMANIAN,
Consultant Interventional Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine