Update on ongoing evaluation of COVID-19 vaccines
July 16, 2021
Source FAMHP
Update on ongoing evaluation of COVID-19 vaccines, EMA advises on COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen and no evidence linking gene therapy Zynteglo to blood cancer
During its July 2021 meeting, the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has concluded a safety signal of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the membrane around the heart) with COVID-19 vaccines Comirnaty and Spikevax and has recommended that people who have previously had capillary leak syndrome must not be vaccinated with COVID-19 vaccine Janssen.