Joint CDC and FDA Statement on Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0413-JJ-vaccine.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04/13/johnson-and-johnson-vaccine-blood-clots/
Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, together with low platelets
Some sort of immune response
6 cases from 6.8 million doses
Look out for, severe headache, abdominal pain, leg pain or shortness of breath within three weeks of vaccination
Paul A.Offit, vaccine specialist, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
I think it’s the prudent thing to do
I think it’s real — this is a rare, but real association
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), meets today
EMA also investigating, delaying European rollout
Janet Woodcock, acting commissioner, Food and Drug Administration
One reason for the pause, health professionals must know not to use heparin
All six cases in the US, occurred among women, 18 to 48
6 – 13 days after vaccination
Of the 6, 1 death and 1 critical
Of the 6, 2 discharged
The person in critical condition was (reportedly) treated with heparin
Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s centre for biologics evaluation and research
hesitate to call it a class effect related to adenovirus vector vaccines
It’s plainly obvious to us already that what we’re seeing with the Jansen vaccines looks very similar to what is being seen with the AstraZeneca vaccine
AstraZeneca, chimpanzee adenoviral vector
Janssen, human adenoviral vector vaccine
I can’t make some broad statement yet, but obviously they are from the same general class of viral vectors
Scale of the problem
100 million doses to US end of May
can produce 1 billion doses globally by the end of the year
has agreed to sell 500 million doses to developing nations via Covax purchasing agreement
agreed to sell up to 400 million to African countries
Turkey
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-news-lockdown-pubs-restaurants-shops-cases-deaths/
Cases, + 59,187 = 3,962,000 million
Deaths, + 273 = 34,455
President Tayyip Erdogan, partial closures
Ramadan started yesterday
France
Cases, + 39,113 = 5,100,000
Deaths, + 324 (in hospital) = 99,480
ITU = 5,952
One month lockdown in place since the end of March
France will suspend all flights to and from Brazil
Sweden
AZ, being given to over 65s
J&J arriving this week
Russia
Manufacturing of Sputnik V, soon in India, (50 m per month) Serbia, Iran, Italy
India
India approved Sputnik V on Monday
UK
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/lockdown-eases-worried-should-londons-cluster-south-african/
Surge PCR testing south London
Lambeth and Wandsworth (population 656,000)
Testing available for all, symptomatic or asymptomatic
Live, work or travel through
South Africa variant
Eeek, E484K, seems to reduce AZ efficacy
Still protects against severe disease
Does not seem to out compete UK variant
New formulation of AZ for third shot later this year
Who are these guys?
Vitamin D
https://vdmeta.com
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