The advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unanimously voted on Thursday to recommend that patients with a choice choose Pfizer or Moderna vaccines over Johnson & Johnson against COVID-19. The reason was the higher safety of these agents.
The panel’s recommendation is the result of new information from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on rare but serious cases of thrombosis. By August 31, at least 54 people – mostly young and middle-aged women – were vaccinated with J&J required hospitalization due to this problem. Nine of these people died.
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Blood clots in April prompted J&J vaccination to be suspended for 10 days, but government agencies ultimately ruled that the benefits of vaccination outweigh its risks.
According to CDC experts, vaccines using mRNA technology – produced by Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech companies – offer better protection and lower risk. This opinion is not binding, and the J&J vaccine will continue to be available to Americans. So far, over 16 million people have chosen it.
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