Healthcare & PharmaceuticalsCOVID-19 vaccine batch Austria has halted use of went to 17 countries
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A vial of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine is seen at a vaccination centre in Westfield Stratford City shopping centre, amid the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in London, Britain, February 18, 2021. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
Austria was one of 17 European countries to receive doses from a batch of AstraZeneca s COVID-19 vaccine that Austrian authorities have stopped using while investigating a death and an illness following their use, a senior health official said on Tuesday.
A 49-year-old nurse in Zwettl, a town northwest of Vienna, died as a result of severe coagulation disorders after receiving the vaccine. Another nurse from Zwettl who is 35 and received a dose from the same batch, ABV 5300, developed a pulmonary embolism and is recovering. read more
Search jobs Johnson & Johnson Single-Shot COVID-19 Vaccine Phase 3 Data Published in New England Journal of Medicine
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., April 21, 2021 – Johnson & Johnson (the Company) today announced publication in the New England Journal of Medicine of primary data from the Phase 3 ENSEMBLE clinical trial for its single-dose COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson (Janssen). The publication of the primary analysis follows the topline efficacy and safety data announced in January, showing the trial met all primary and key secondary endpoints, and found that the Johnson & Johnson single-dose COVID-19 vaccine prevented hospitalization and death across all study participants 28 days after vaccination.
April 22, 2021 Johnson & Johnson announced it would resume shipping its COVID-19 vaccine to Europe after the European Union’s health agency said a warning about a possible connection to blood clots should be attached to the vaccine.
The vaccine’s benefits “outweigh the risks of side effects,” the European Medicines Agency said in a statement.
Johnson & Johnson said it will ship again to the EU nations, Norway, and Iceland with the warning and provide guidance for health care professionals on possible treatments.
“We strongly believe in the positive benefits of our single-shot, easily transportable COVID-19 vaccine to help protect the health of people everywhere and reach communities in need globally,” Paul Stoffels, M.D., chief scientific officer at Johnson & Johnson, said in a statement.
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NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ, USA I April 20, 2021 I Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) (the Company) today announced that the European Medicines Agency s (EMA) Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) has provided updated guidance for use of the Company s COVID-19 vaccine and confirmed the overall benefit-risk profile remains positive. The guidance follows PRAC review of a small number of cases of a very rare adverse event involving blood clots in combination with low platelet counts that can occur within approximately one to three weeks following injection with the Company s COVID-19 vaccine.