A woman in her late 30s has died of a rare blood clotting condition nearly two weeks after receiving a single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine in Washington, according to state health officials. The woman is the first confirmed death in King County, and the fourth person to die nationwide out of the nearly 15 … Read moreFourth woman dead from rare clots after Johnson and Johnson vaccine administered
Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine is safe and generates a “robust” immune response in a clinical trial of kids ages 5 to 11, the drugmakers announced Monday. The companies tested a two-dose regimen of 10 micrograms — about a third the dosage used for teens and adults — administered three weeks apart. They said the shots were … Read morePfizer set to submit to FDA: Covid vaccine ‘safe’ in kids
The vaccine, made by Janssen, J&J’s vaccine arm, is safe and effective, and it’s considered flexible. It’s a single dose, and it doesn’t require special storage.
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MORE.. After several people had apparent allergic reactions at one California clinic, state health officials on Sunday told providers across the state to pause administering doses from one COVID-19 vaccine lot that arrived from Moderna. The move, made “out of an extreme abundance of caution,” means that 330,000 doses distributed to 287 providers across the … Read moreCalifornia pauses Moderna vaccine at one location after allergic reactions
ABC NEWS reports that four workers had elevated heart rates and “tingling” .. MORE.. Officials are stating it is a normal side effect.. MORE: Advocate Aurora Health, a health care system in Wisconsin and Illinois, said Friday that it paused COVID-19 vaccinations after health care workers “experienced reactions” from the Pfizer shot. Four team members … Read moreILLINOIS MEDICAL CENTER PAUSES PFIZER VACCINES AFTER REACTIONS REPORTED
AstraZeneca said it plans to conduct a new global clinical trial to assess the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine’s efficacy. The news comes after the company and the university acknowledged a dosing error in trials. More: In a statement Wednesday, Oxford University said some of the vials used in the trial didn’t have the right concentration of vaccine … Read moreFlash: AstraZeneca will conduct new global vaccine trial after error!
The company released a statement on Monday, saying “We have temporarily paused further dosing in all our COVID-19 vaccine candidate clinical trials, including the Phase 3 Ensemble trial, due to an unexplained illness in a study participant.” The vaccine was being tested in 60,000 participants across the US, Argentina, Brazil and several other countries. In … Read moreVaccine test paused at Johnson and Johnson