People who refuse to be vaccinated pose a risk not just to themselves and their immediate friends and families, they compromise America’s return to normalcy. The more vaccine-preventable infections occur, the longer the COVID-19 pandemic will drag on and the greater economic and social damage America will suffer. One way […]
Three-quarters of parents don’t plan to vaccinate their kids against COVID-19 when the FDA gives the go-ahead for younger children, according to a new survey. Many said they’d wait a few months, but a full third said they don’t plan to vaccinate their kids at all. The survey, by the […]
Use of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines should be considered as the preferable option in the US rather than Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) Janssen COVID-19 vaccine in women under the age of 50 years, according to one group of experts. The group makes their recommendation in an editorial in JAMA published online April 30, accompanying a paper describing details […]
CHAPEL HILL, NC, USA, (April 20, 2021) – As a complement to its recent statement on blood clots associated with COVID-19 vaccination, the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) has issued interim guidance for the diagnosis and treatment of vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT). This guidance, which builds upon the work […]
The BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine from Pfizer–BioNTech and the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine from Oxford–AstraZeneca were the first two products deployed in the UK’s COVID-19 vaccination programme. In accordance with the strategy set by the nation’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), vaccines were initially prioritised for care home residents and […]
Summary What is already known about this topic? On April 13, 2021, CDC and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended pausing use of the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine after reports of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) among vaccine recipients. What is added by this report? On April 23, the Advisory […]
The Food and Drug Administration ended its recommended pause on the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine on Friday and will add a warning to its label to note the potential risk of rare blood clots. The decision, which clears the way for states to resume vaccinations, came after a panel […]
Summary Emerging variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are of clinical concern. In a cohort of 417 persons who had received the second dose of BNT162b2 (Pfizer–BioNTech) or mRNA-1273 (Moderna) vaccine at least 2 weeks previously, we identified 2 women with vaccine breakthrough infection. Despite evidence of […]
Scientists in Germany say they’ve worked out the two-step mechanism by which the AstraZeneca vaccine causes rare but devastating blood clots that gobble up the body’s supply of platelets. So far, European regulators have reported more than 220 cases of unusual blood clots and low levels of platelets in patients who received the […]
On April 13, 2021, CDC and FDA recommended a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine. Of the nearly 7 million doses administered so far in the United States, a small number of reports of a rare and severe type of blood clot have been reported […]
