Five Australians have developed blood clotting syndrome after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine in the past week, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has confirmed. They are a 66-year-old man in Queensland, a 74-year-old man and 51-year-old woman in Victoria, a 70-year-old man in Tasmania and a 64-year-old man from Western Australia. Four of them have already left the hospital, while the Queensland man is currently being treated in the intensive care unit. He was rushed to Townsville hospital while suffering abdominal pain five days after getting the first dose of the AstraZeneca jab on April 30. “I don’t believe in coincidences,” he told The Courier Mail. “If I’m fighting fit, vertical, extremely active one minute and then on my death bed the next. The only thing that’s changed is the AstraZeneca vaccine that I’ve had. “There is a problem here. I nearly died. I don’t want anyone else to go through that.” …