Finland also bans the Moderna vaccine to young people. And hope ..
Finland became the latest Scandinavian country to impose new restrictions on the use of Moderna's COVID vaccine. On Thursday it announced it will discontinue use of the vaccine for younger males due to the risk of rare but harmful side effects, including inflammation of the heart, the famous myocarditis.
Following in the footsteps of Sweden and Denmark, the director of the Finnish health institute said Helsinki will administer the Pfizer vaccine to men born since 1991, excluding Moderna. Currently, patients 12 years of age and older can be vaccinated in Finland.
Mika Salminen, the director of the Finnish health institute, blamed the new restrictions on the data collected in a Nordic study.
"A Nordic study involving Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark found that men under the age of 30 who received Moderna Spikevax had a slightly higher risk than others of developing myocarditis," he said.
Yesterday, Swedish and Danish health officials announced that they would suspend the use of the Moderna vaccine for all young adults and children, citing the same unpublished study.
The Finns said the Nordic study will be published within a couple of weeks. Preliminary data has already been sent to the EMA for further assessment. The EMA, which is the pan-EU regulator of medicines, determined in July that rare cases of heart inflammation had been detected in some younger male patients.
U.S. health agencies, as well as the WHO, have repeatedly insisted that the risks in mRNA vaccines are far outweighed by their benefits. Moderna executives have come forward to defend their vaccine. Here, unsurprisingly, the Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza said Thursday that Italy had no intention of suspending or limiting the use of Moderna's vaccine and said that European countries should work together more closely to coordinate better. . In the end, the risks for young people are not really that important ..
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