© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A nurse prepares a syringe with a dose of the Moderna coronavirus illness (COVID-19) vaccine at Enfermera Isabel Zendal hospital in Madrid, Spain, July 23, 2021. REUTERS/Juan Medina
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden and Denmark mentioned on Wednesday they are going to pause using Moderna (NASDAQ:)’s COVID-19 vaccine for youthful age teams after reviews of doable uncommon uncomfortable side effects, corresponding to myocarditis.
The Swedish well being company mentioned it will pause utilizing the shot for individuals born in 1991 and later as knowledge pointed to a rise of myocarditis and pericarditis amongst youths and younger adults that had been vaccinated. These circumstances contain an irritation of the center or its lining.
“The connection is particularly clear in terms of Moderna’s vaccine Spikevax, particularly after the second dose,” the well being company mentioned in an announcement, including the chance of being affected was very small.
Denmark mentioned that, whereas it was already utilizing the Pfizer/Biontech vaccine as the primary possibility for individuals aged 12-17 years, it had determined to pause giving the Moderna vaccine to individuals under 18 in keeping with a “precautionary precept”.
“Within the preliminary knowledge … there’s a suspicion of an elevated danger of coronary heart irritation, when vaccinated with Moderna,” The Danish Well being Authority mentioned in an announcement.
It referred to knowledge from a but unpublished Nordic research, which might now be despatched to the European Medicines Company (EMA) for additional evaluation. Last knowledge was anticipated inside a month, it added.
Sweden and Denmark mentioned they now really useful the Comirnaty vaccine, from Pfizer/Biontech, as an alternative.
Norway already recommends the Cominarty vaccine to minors and mentioned on Wednesday that it was reiterating this, underlining that the uncommon uncomfortable side effects might occur notably for boys and younger males, and primarily after receiving a second dose.
“Males below the age of 30 also needs to contemplate selecting Cominarty after they get vaccinated,” Geir Bukholm, head of an infection management on the Norwegian Institute of Publica Well being, mentioned in an announcement.
A Finnish well being official mentioned Finland anticipated to publish a choice on Thursday.
The EMA authorized using Comirnaty in Could, whereas Spikevax was given the nod for kids over 12 in July.
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