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Covid: vaccines, in Italy 729 adverse reactions reported every 100 thousand doses / Card

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Rome, March 18 (beraking latest news Salute) – The reports of adverse reactions to anti-Covid vaccines registered in Italy by the Aifa National Pharmacovigilance Network, were 729 every 100,000 doses, for a total total, as of February 26, the latest figure released by the Italian Medicines Agency , of 30,015 reports analyzed out of a total of 4,118,277 doses administered – at that date – for all vaccines. In detail, the reactions reported mainly concerned the Pfizer / BionTech vaccine (96%), which was the most used and only to a lesser extent the Moderna vaccine (1%) and the AstraZeneca vaccine (3%). Obviously, the data does not take into account the latest events that led first to the suspension of a batch of AstraZeneca serum, and subsequently to the temporary stop throughout Italy and in several European countries of its inoculation. Suspension on which the European Medicines Agency Ema will decide among a few.

From what emerges from the Aifa report, the second published since the start of the anti-Covid vaccination but, with data in progressive evolution, 93.6% of the most reported adverse events for all three vaccines are minor and “in line. with the information already present in the summary of the product characteristics of the vaccines “ie: fever, headaches, muscle and joint pain, injection site pain, chills and nausea. While serious reports correspond to 6.1% of the total, with a rate of 44 serious events per 100,000 doses administered, regardless of the type of vaccine and dose administered.

The reported events mainly occurred on the same day of vaccination or the day after (87% of cases).

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According to the Aifa report, the reporting rate is “higher than that usually observed for other vaccinations, for example the flu vaccination, but consistent with the results of clinical studies and indicative of the special attention paid to this vaccination”. The median age of people reporting adverse reactions is 46 years consistent with the median age of vaccinated people, mostly healthcare workers. (continues)

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