EMA gives green light to Johnson and Johnson, but the US has blocked him.
There are possible links between the J&J Covid-19 vaccine and rare forms of thrombosis but the benefits outweigh the risks. So J&J can be used in Europe. However, the same vaccine is blocked by the FDA in the USA, in a pause for the evaluation of blood thrombi. At the same time, very recent news, the FDA even stopped production at a Baltimore plant where 15,000 doses of the vaccine were accidentally destroyed a few weeks ago.
Now AIFA will authorize the vaccine in Italy, probably with limits such as, for example, only for those over 60, which, in a certain sense, are used to gain some experience. Among other things, upstream to assess that the benefits outweigh the risks is a bit complex: before making a gender assessment, it is necessary to have a series of collateral events related to the inoculations a little wider than the one collected so far. However, by cutting a bit with the hatchet, and giving the impression of being at the gas pipe on vaccinations, it is decided to make a decision opposite to the FDA.
Maybe tomorrow even the US will change its mind and start distributing it again. Meanwhile, the famous 150,000 doses already present in Pratica di Mare will be able to be distributed. For now, the only measure taken by EMA, and which will be taken up by AIFA, is the addition of possible thrombus among the contraindications in cases where blood platelets are particularly low. A necessary and useful measure, but, above all, we rely on the fact not to suffer these negative events. A little bit, but when you have entrusted yourself to something untried you have to accept these risks too …
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