 I am Dr. Ranjan Shetty. I head Cardiology Department at Manipal Hospital, Old Airport Road. I'm here to talk about COVID vaccine today. It's safe for cardiac patients to take COVID vaccine. It's not just safe, it is needed because it's more protective and if they get COVID, natural COVID infection, they're likely to, the complications are more higher. The worry what patients have is about blood thinner. But cardiac patients can take COVID vaccine and it's okay to take it on blood thinners. So when we talk about blood thinner, blood thinners like aspirin, clopadogrel, ticagrerol, or prasogrel, so-called anti-platelets, it's okay to take vaccine on this. You don't have to stop any of these tablets. You could take the vaccine without interrupting any of these medicines. It is safer and complications are minimal when you continue this medicine. But there are some blood thinner which may be dangerous. They are what we call as anti-cogulants. So that includes drugs like warfarin and cumidines. It also includes drugs like dabigatron, epixaban and riveroxaban. These are very strong blood thinner. So most of the time what we advise these patients is to stop these drugs for two to three days and then take COVID vaccine because any injection in them can produce bleeding. So just to summarize, any people who are on anti-platelet like aspirin or aspirin-like drugs just don't worry. Go ahead and take the vaccine. But if you're on stronger blood thinner, meet your doctor, make some adjustment in the dose and then take the vaccine. Vaccines are safer and they're very effective and cardiac patients being high risk to get COVID and have complications must take COVID vaccine if it is available to them.