AstraZeneca alternative available to under 40s following revised JCVI guidance
Sat, 08 May 2021
The Isle of Man will follow the latest advice from the JCVI – the UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation – issued yesterday.
It recommends that, where available, an alternative to the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine should be offered to those aged between 30 and 39 who do not have an underlying health condition and where the offer of an alternative does not cause a substantial delay in someone being vaccinated.
The JCVI’s updated advice follows a further review by the MHRA – the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency – on extremely rare and unlikely to occur blood clots (concurrent thrombosis) and low platelet count (thrombocytopenia) following the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine.