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California says it’s safe to use huge lot of Moderna vaccines paused after allergic reactions [San Francisco Chronicle]
Jan. 21 California is releasing hundreds of thousands of doses of coronavirus vaccine that it had put on pause Sunday after the vaccine batch was linked to a cluster of allergic reactions in San Diego last week.
The matter was examined by the state committee that reviews coronavirus vaccine safety and other agencies, according to state health officer Dr. Erica Pan.
“Yesterday, we convened the Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup and additional allergy and immunology specialists to examine the evidence collected,” the California Department of Public Health said in a statement Wednesday night. “We had further discussions with the County of San Diego Department of Public Health, the FDA, CDC and manufacturer, and found no scientific basis to continue the pause. Providers that paused vaccine administration from Moder
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Three days after the state placed a pause on administering 330,000 doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine due to reports of allergic reactions, California Public Health officials have announced that there is “no scientific basis to continue the pause.”
The previously suspect lot, Moderna 041L20A, represented a week’s worth of doses for the state. Humboldt County Public Health had 4,100 doses of that batch in its freezer and had already administered some doses to local residents, according to Public Heath Officer Dr. Ian Hoffman.
California State Epidemiologist Dr. Erica Pan issued the following statement late Wednesday, advising providers that they can immediately resume use of the vaccine:
Coronavirus updates: As California COVID rates decline, more focus on vaccine rollout
Sacramento Bee 1/22/2021 Michael McGough, The Sacramento Bee
Jan. 21 While California s coronavirus rates continue to show signs of improvement from a dire winter surge, health officials remain concerned by the state s slow rollout of vaccine.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Department of Public Health last week began directing counties to start vaccinating members of the general public ages 65 and older, spurred by recommendations from the federal government and the Trump administration s promise to release a reserve stockpile of vaccine doses.
That hit a snag when it turned out that that federal stockpile didn t exist, as officials acknowledged late last week. Data on COVID-19 vaccine distribution released weekly by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show all U.S. states and territories slated to receive exactly the same allocations of both Pfizer and Mode
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