effectiveness is more than adequate to keep you from getting severe covid.
there is no evidence the clotting cases were caused by the vaccine. parts-per-million-wise it was also below the number you'd expect to die of clotting in any random sample, according to a virologist.
bungling during the trials wasn't enough to render the data useless. i was wary at the time but it does seem to be proving itself in the wild, numbers-wise.
given a choice between getting AstraZeneca and waiting for Pfizer, Moderna, etc, i'll do the AstraZeneca rather than wait.