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UPDATE: Health Canada investigating blood clot reports after US pauses J&J vaccine
(UPDATE: April 13 @ 9:11 am): Health Canada says it is investigating reports a second vaccine may be linked to extremely rare cases of blood clots.
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration issued a joint statement Tuesday recommending a pause in using the single−dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine after six women developed blood clots after being vaccinated.
The clots were observed along with reduced platelet counts making the usual treatment for blood clots, the blood thinner heparin, potentially dangerous.’’
Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s the chief public health officer, also reports today that there are a record number of COVID−19 patients in Canada’s intensive care units.
Estonia will suspend the use of the Janssen coronavirus vaccine until the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has issued its report next week, the immunoprophylaxis expert committee agreed on Wednesday.
The first 2,400 doses of the one-shot U.S. manufactured vaccine reached Estonia on Tuesday but on the same day the USA s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported a potential link between blood clots and the vaccine, pausing further vaccinations.
In total six reports of an extremely rare blood clotting disorder in combination with low platelets are being investigated. So far, 6.8 million doses of the Janssen vaccine have already been administered.
PH wants to ‘borrow’ AstraZeneca vaccine doses from US gov’t
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 15) The Philippines has asked the Biden administration if it could “borrow” from its stockpile of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, which is not approved for emergency use in the United States, Philippine Ambassador to the US Jose Manuel “Babe” Romualdez said Thursday.
“We have written formally to the HHS (United States Department of Health and Human Services) and also to the White House if we could borrow some of these AstraZeneca [vaccine doses],” Romualdez told an online forum.
Millions of doses of the coronavirus vaccine made by the British-Swedish company were sitting idly in manufacturing facilities in the US awaiting official usage approval, CNN said in a report last month.
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