ROME (ITALPRESS) – “In the last few hours the drug-surveillance and vaccine committees of Ema and Aifa have evaluated new data regarding the development of thrombotic phenomena affecting the cerebral venous sinuses, the evaluation made by the committee Ema, is that the causal link, not definitively proven, has been found as plausible, the development of these complications is not definitively clarified, there are hypotheses of reactions but the occurrence of these phenomena, which are very rare “. This was stated by the president of the CSS, Franco Locatelli, during the press conference on the EMA evaluations in relation to the AstraZeneca vaccine. “Most of these events were observed in female subjects under 60 years of age, although the EMA stated that there are no highlighted risk factors – he added -. The number of doses administered as a second dose is too limited to draw firm conclusions “. Locatelli recalled that “the vaccine is approved over 18 years of age. There is the goal of reaching a shared condition among European countries”. “The position decided by the Minister of Health was to recommend a preferential use of the Astrazeneca vaccine in subjects over 60 years of age”, underlined Locatelli. “At the moment there are no elements not to consider the administration of the second dose for those who have already received the first”, he continued. “In recent days Aifa has worked in the EMA commissions to evaluate these very rare thrombotic events, and the analysis of the data, including the English ones, has confirmed a plausible causal relationship between these very rare events, in the young age, this has generated a signal alarm that led to identify it as an undesirable effect of the vaccine “, said the director general of Aifa, Nicola Magrini. “Vaccination plans must be flexible, knowledge increases and we must adapt the use of vaccines, also based on the course of the epidemic itself, especially with a new virus”, explained Gianni Rezza, Director General of Prevention of the Ministry of Health . (ITALPRESS). ror / sat / red 07-Apr-21 21:34
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