“The reason for the condition of our patients has been found,” Holme announced to Norwegian national newspaper VG. The collaboration he led worked on a theory that the vaccine triggered an unexpected and powerful immune response - a theory they now believe they have confirmed.
“[W]e have found specific antibodies against blood platelets that can cause these reactions, and which we know from other fields of medicine, but then with medical drugs as the cause of the reaction,” said Holme.
"Nothing but the vaccine can explain why these individuals had this immune response.” (Bold emphasis added).
When VG asked Holme how he could be sure know the immune response was not caused by something other than the vaccine, he replied: “There is nothing in the patient history of these individuals that can give such a powerful immune response. I am confident that the antibodies that we have found are the cause, and I see no other explanation than it being the vaccine which triggers it.”
The three affected health workers all came into the hospital with the following normally rare features:
They had acute pain
They had blood clots in unusual places, such as their stomachs and brains
In addition, they had bleeding and low levels of platelets