THIS Morning’s Alison Hammond has said she’s “so worried” about having the Covid-19 vaccine.
The presenter, 41, opened up about her concerns during a segment on the ITV breakfast show earlier today.
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Alison and co-host Dermot O’Leary were joined by Professor Tim Spector from King’s College London to talk about all thing coronavirus related.
The telly star made it clear that she feels anxious about her health if she does decide to get jabbed, and in particular highlighted the distress about getting a blood clot.
Despite the vaccine programme helping us get back normality, a small amount of people have developed a clot after having the AstraZeneca or Johnson & Johnson jab.
Alison confessed: “Professor, I’m so sorry to have to go back to the whole child thing, but I’m so worried about the vaccine myself because I really don’t want to get a blood clot.
“I’ve been talking about it the whole time, I don’t want to get a blood clot.
“I don’t want to die because I’m really enjoying this job and everything, it’s absolutely amazing.”
Alison, who is in the age range and gender of someone more likely to develop a blood clot, went on to confess that she also feels uneasy about the fact that it may also make her 15-year-old son Aiden ill too.
She continued: “But so if I’m really worried about myself, I’m even more worried about my son.
“Can you guarantee he’s not going to get ill if he takes that vaccine?
“Our children are the most precious things in the world and I just don’t want him to get ill from taking the vaccine if he wasn’t really going to get Covid anyway.”
Professor Tim Spector definitely put Alison at ease with his response.
He replied: “Your risk if you got Covid is very much more than having a blood clot which is around one in 300,000, it’s extremely low.
