April 14, 2021
(Wall Street Journal) – A federal advisory panel will meet Wednesday to debate whether and how Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine should continue to be used in the U.S., following reports of rare but severe blood clots among a few … Read More
April 14, 2021
(New York Times) – First it was AstraZeneca. Now Johnson & Johnson. Last week, British regulators and the European Union’s medical agency said they had established a possible link between AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine and very rare, though sometimes fatal, blood … Read More
April 13, 2021
(Medical Xpress) – South Africa suspended giving Johnson & Johnson vaccine shots Tuesday as a “precautionary measure” and the company delayed its European vaccine rollout following an FDA decision to pause the jabs while very rare blood clot cases are … Read More
April 13, 2021
(Associated Press) – The U.S. on Tuesday recommended a “pause” in using the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to investigate reports of rare but potentially dangerous blood clots, setting off a chain reaction worldwide and dealing a setback to … Read More
April 13, 2021
(STAT News) – Most tellingly, both the paper from Norway and the second paper, which looked at patients from Austria and Germany, found that blood clots were seen in people who had high levels of antibodies to platelet factor 4, … Read More
April 13, 2021
(Medscape) – Two scientific studies establishing a causal relationship between the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and severe thrombotic complications have now been published. The articles — one from a German/Austrian/Canadian collaboration and one from a Norwegian group — were published online … Read More
April 13, 2021
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 383, no. 12, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Consent to Trainee Involvement in Pediatric Care” by E.A. Largent “Examining Examinations Conducted under Anesthesia” by M.F. Greene “June Medical Services … Read More
April 12, 2021
(NPR) – Duke University in North Carolina has announced that it will require students to have a COVID-19 vaccine when they return this fall. And the list of campuses with such policies is growing. Rutgers University in New Jersey was … Read More
April 12, 2021
(CBC) – Quebec’s Health Ministry issued a decree Saturday that verges on making COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory for health-care workers in certain sectors. In a news release Saturday afternoon, the ministry said the move is necessary due to “the growing risk … Read More
April 12, 2021
(CNN) – The efficacy of Chinese Covid-19 vaccines is “not high” and authorities are weighing options to bolster protection — including mixing different shots, China’s top disease control official has said. “The protection rates of existing vaccines are not high,” … Read More
