Israel’s Ministry of Health January 19 affirmed that there is no evidence to show a link between the stroke case with the company’s modified COVID-19 vaccine Pfizer/BioNTech.
Earlier, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that according to preliminary data, a safety monitoring system has warned that the vaccine may be linked to a type of stroke in the elderly.
However, the head of Israel’s COVID-19 rapid response force, Salman Zarka, confirmed: “We have no such findings, even after reviewing and re-checking all the data. Whether.”
To date, 389,648 people in Israel have Vaccination Pfizer’s bivalent targets the original virus strain and the BA.4, BA.5 sub-variants of Omicron.
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On January 18, the European Medicines Agency also confirmed that there were no signs of unsafety in the region related to Pfizer’s bivalent vaccine.
In a joint statement, Pfizer of the US and BioNTech of Germany said they have information about strokes caused by blood clots in people 65 years of age and older after vaccination with the modified vaccine.
However, Pfizer adds that neither the company nor the CDC or FDA have seen similar warnings in other surveillance systems, and said there is no evidence to link stroke with use of the drug. Use your COVID-19 vaccine.
Bich Lien (VNA/Vietnam+)