The Israel has found no evidence linking strokes to the updated Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19, according to a Health Ministry official.
On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said a safety audit had flagged that the vaccine could potentially be linked to with a type of stroke in the elderly, according to preliminary data.
“There was no such finding, even after we went back and rechecked all of our data after the FDA announcementSalman Zarqa, the head of the Israeli task force on the coronavirus, said today to Reuters and relayed by the Athens News Agency.
About 389,648 people in Israel have so far received the vaccine, which targets the original strain coronavirus and the Omicron BA.4/BA.5 subvariant.
Yesterday Wednesday, the European Medicines Agency also reported that it had not detected any safety evidence related to this vaccine.
Pfizer and BioNTech said in a statement Friday that they are aware of limited reports of ischemic strokes in people 65 years of age and older after vaccination with their updated vaccine.
Pfizer further noted that neither the companies nor the CDC and FDA have recorded similar findings in other control and monitoring systems, stressing that there is no evidence to suggest an association with the companies’ use of the Covid-19 vaccines.
Source: News Beast
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