Reykjavik, Iceland:
Iceland on Friday suspended the Moderna anti-Covid vaccine, citing the slight elevated dangers of cardiac inflammation, going additional than its Nordic neighbours which basically restricted use of the jabs.
“As the supply of Pfizer vaccine is sufficient in the territory … the chief epidemiologist has decided not to use the Moderna vaccine in Iceland,” stated a statement published on the web-site of the Health Directorate.
This choice owed to “the increased incidence of myocarditis and pericarditis after vaccination with the Moderna vaccine, as well as with vaccination using Pfizer/BioNTech,” the chief epidemiologist stated in a statement.
For the previous two months, Iceland has been administering an added dose “almost exclusively” of the Moderna vaccine to Icelanders vaccinated with Janssen, a single-dose serum marketed by America’s Johnson & Johnson, as properly as to elderly and immunocompromised men and women who received two doses of an additional vaccine.
This will not influence the vaccination campaign in the island of 370,000 inhabitants, exactly where 88 % of the population more than 12 years old is currently completely vaccinated.
Since Thursday, Sweden and Finland have also suspended the use of the Moderna vaccine but only for these beneath 30, due to the fact of a danger of inflammation of the myocardium, the heart muscle, and the pericardium, the membrane covering the heart.
Denmark and Norway have formally advised against it for these beneath 18.
According to Swedish authorities, most of these inflammations are benign and pass on their personal, but it is encouraged health-related tips be sought should really symptoms take place.
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