So... "women of childbearing age on hormonal birth control with a low platelet count" is kind of half our clientele. As I understand it, thrombocytopenia is basically just a cut-off; a line in the sand that all these women happened to be on one side of. It's likely to be a condition you don't even know you have, or were told you had but forgot the name of because it didn't matter. It's like my wife and Gilbert's - her parents look like Wisconsin stock while she looks vaguely Mediterranean for some reason because her liver doesn't process bilirubin that great but other than the blood bank freaking out every time she donates and her rolling her eyes at them, it's never really mattered.

So this is actually kinda concerning to me, especially when I see that both the J&J and the Astra-Zeneca are adenovirus vaccines, as opposed to mRNA vaccines, but it's primarily concerning because I'm truly reaching for comprehension here. As Galbraith said, "there are two kinds of forecasters, those who don't know and those who don't know they don't know" and I try to be the former.

So I'd welcome your further thoughts on the matter. We're gonna get asked. And we're gonna get asked a lot.