Interim aggregate of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare… Experts’ Meeting “No Significant Concern about Safety”
The two dead… “It is difficult to evaluate the causal relationship with vaccination”
While vaccination for Pfizer’s novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) is ongoing in Japan, local health officials have determined that more than a third of the second-line vaccinations have suffered a fever.
According to a report by the Yomiuri Shimbun on the 27th, 35.6% of the 2nd dose of Pfizer vaccine showed fever symptoms of 37.5 degrees or higher.
The rate that the primary inoculation experienced a fever of 37.5 degrees or higher was 3.3%.
At the Japan Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare expert review meeting held the day before, this interim count was reported, which analyzed 19,35 primary vaccinations and 3,933 secondary vaccinations.
The proportion of those who felt drowsy after vaccination was 23.2% of the 1st inoculation and 67.3% of the 2nd inoculation.
Those who suffered from headache were 21.2% in the 1st and 49.0% in the 2nd, and the pain in the arm was 92.3% in the 1st and 91.9% in the 2nd.
Anaphylaxis, an acute allergic reaction, was 47 out of about 580,000 vaccinations conducted until the 21st, and 81 cases per 100 doses, according to Kyodo News.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare expert review meeting evaluated that “no serious concerns about safety are recognized.”
In Japan, a 26-year-old woman died of cerebellar hemorrhage and subarachnoid hemorrhage on the 23rd of this month, 4 days after vaccination.
According to the Kyodo News Agency, a post-mortem examination revealed that a blood mass that seemed to have existed in the brain from before was found, and the lump in the blood vessel may have burst accidentally after the vaccination, and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is continuing to collect information.
The Yomiuri Shimbun reported that the woman, the second death case after vaccination, had no chronic disease, and that it is difficult to assess the causal relationship between vaccination and death at this time.
There was also a case where a woman in her 60s who received the Pfizer vaccine died on the 1st of this month, 3 days after the vaccination.
The cause of death is presumed to be subarachnoid hemorrhage, and the authorities have decided to continue to review it, saying that it is impossible to evaluate the causal relationship with the vaccination.
/yunhap news
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