Israel has found no evidence linking an updated version of the Covid vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech to vascular accidents, Salman Zarka, director of the country’s coronavirus vaccination campaign, said on Thursday, according to Reuters.
His statement came after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said last Friday that the vaccine’s safety monitoring system had flagged the vaccine as possibly linked to a type of stroke that is more common in the elderly over 65 years of age.
An ischemic stroke, also known as cerebral ischemia, is caused by a blockage in the arteries that carry blood to the brain.
The FDA and CDC said other large studies, the CDC’s Adverse Reaction Reporting System, other countries’ databases and the Pfizer-BioNTech database did not see this safety issue, adding that more research is needed.
“Although the body of evidence currently suggests that the VSD (Vaccine Safety Datalink) signal is unlikely to represent a true clinical risk, we believe it is important to make this information public,” the US health authorities said.
Neither Israel nor the EU found a link between the Covid vaccine and strokes
Speaking about the situation on Thursday, Salman Zakra said that public health officials in Israel could not find any link between the administration of Pfizer/BioNTech’s bivalent Covid vaccine, “even after we went back and rechecked all our data after announcement made by FDA. “.
In Israel, 389,648 people received this updated vaccine against the original coronavirus variant and the Omicron variant.
The European Medicines Agency said on Wednesday that it had found no safety signals for the Pfizer/BioNTech bivalent vaccine.
Last Friday, the two companies said they had been alerted to reports of ischemic strokes in people aged 65 and older after being vaccinated with an updated version of the vaccine.
“Neither Pfizer and BioNTech, nor the CDC or FDA have seen similar results in numerous other surveillance systems in the US and around the world, and there is no evidence that ischemic stroke is associated with the use of COVID-19 vaccines,” they added . .
Source: Hot News
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