US restricts J&J COVID vaccine due to risk of thrombosis

The United States has restricted the use of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine due to the risk of blood clots. The decision was made by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The FDA explained that it decided to restrict the vaccine after re-analyzing data on the risk of "life-threatening blood clots" within two weeks of vaccination.

India recommends using Sputnik Light as a booster vaccine Society

The vaccination recommendation urged Americans to use Pfizer or Moderna drugs instead of Johnson & Johnson, the newspaper notes.

In April last year, US and European authorities already suspended the use of the Johnson & Johns vaccine. Then the decision was made after blood clots formed in six patients who were injected with the vaccine. They occurred in women between the ages of 18 and 48, with symptoms appearing 6 to 13 days after vaccination. According to The New York Times, one of the women died and the other was hospitalized in critical condition.

The cause of blood clots could be a rare immune response that leads to the activation of platelets, suggested the head of one of the research centers of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Peter Marks.

After conducting studies, the American regulator again allowed the use of the vaccine. The company also resumed deliveries of the drug to Europe.

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