COVID-19 Frequently Asked Questions:

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