Posted on 04/16/2021 6:17:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
CHICAGO—Scientists at Johnson & Johnson on Friday refuted an assertion in a major medical journal that the design of their COVID-19 vaccine, which is similar AstraZeneca’s, may explain why both have been linked to very rare brain blood clots in some vaccine recipients.
The United States earlier this week paused distribution of the J&J vaccine to investigate six cases of a rare brain blood clot known as cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), accompanied by a low blood platelet count, in U.S. women under age 50, out of about 7 million people who got the shot.
The blood clots in patients who received the J&J vaccine bear close resemblance to 169 cases in Europe reported with the AstraZeneca vaccine, out of 34 million doses administered there.
Both vaccines are based on a new technology that uses a modified version of adenoviruses, which cause the common cold, as vectors to ferry instructions to human cells.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is scrutinizing this design behind both vaccines to see if it is contributing to the risk.
In a letter on Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine, J&J scientists refuted a case report published earlier this week by Kate Lynn-Muir and colleagues at the University of Nebraska, who asserted that the rare blood clots “could be related to adenoviral vector vaccines.”
In an interview with Reuters on Thursday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert and an adviser to the White House, said the fact that they are both adenovirus vector vaccines is a “pretty obvious clue” that the cases could be linked to the vector.
“Whether that is the reason, I can’t say for sure, but it certainly is something that raises suspicion,” Fauci said.
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SOME DETAILS ON THE J&J SCIENTISTS EXPLANATIONS:
In the correspondence on Friday, Macaya Douoguih, a scientist with J&J’s Janssen vaccines division, and colleagues pointed out that the vectors used in its vaccine and the AstraZeneca shot are “substantially different” and that those differences could lead to “quite different biological effects.”
Specifically, they noted that the J&J vaccine uses a human adenovirus while the AstraZeneca vaccine uses a chimpanzee adenovirus. The vectors are also from different virologic families or species, and use different cell receptors to enter cells.
The J&J shot also includes mutations to stabilize the so-called spike protein portion of the coronavirus that the vaccine uses to produce an immune response, while the AstraZeneca vaccine does not.
“The vectors are very different,” said Dr. Dan Barouch of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center in Boston, who helped design the J&J vaccine.
“The implications of issues with one vector for the other one are not clear at this point,” he said in an interview earlier this week.
The J&J scientists said in the letter there was not enough evidence to say their vaccine caused the blood clots and they continue to work with health authorities to assess the data.
Of course
They’re wonderful and oh so safe, mummy
Unicorn farts dont hurt anyone
Shut up and get your shot!
“The implications of issues with one vector for the other one are not clear at this point,” he said in an interview earlier this week.
Well, that’s comforting.
Not.
🙃
That’s not what others are saying,
“ COVID-19 vaccination may make the situation worse, especially for those with blood coagulation problems or those, like the elderly, taking “blood thinners,” even mild antiplatelet therapy such as aspirin.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/potential-danger-vaccinating-previously-exposed-covid-19/
Everything related to science, medicine, policy, education and government raises suspicion these days.
RE: COVID-19 vaccination may make the situation worse, especially for those with blood coagulation problems or those, like the elderly, taking “blood thinners,”
OK, here’s the other question - which is worse - taking a chance with the vaccine on a 6 in 7 million chance you will have a blood clot, or taking a chance with having Covid, which is also known to cause blood clots?
I know you’re /sarc here
But the sad thing is way too many folks here really believe that and would love to force people to get them
And not so those people could be safe, but because they believe it makes THEM safer
If you die or are permanently damaged, they could give a rats ass, they dont care at all
You’re just a statistical anomaly to them, they are totally fine with you dead or permanently screwed
And you jackwagon cowards who believe this, you’re the worst folks in this whole mess
They’re lying, as usual.
Maybe just maybe, Johnson & Johnson didn’t give their 10 percent to the Big Guy.
There is about a one in a million chance of one of these CVST blood clots striking after a J&J vaccination.
That is about the same as after the AZ vaccine. Or the Moderna vaccine. Or the Pfizer vaccine.
The chance of getting one of those blood clots after any of the vaccines, is actually less than the average for unvaccinated people. The vaccines have been given disproportionally to older people.
CVST blood clots with low platelet counts are mostly among women of child bearing age. They are a known side effect of estrogen-based birth control, but some older women get them from Estrogen Hormone Replacement Therapy.
I have the J&J vax. Got it over a month ago. If people don’t want to take it, fine, but I’m with the legit POTUS in Florida that it’s criminal to sideline it when 7 women out of 7 MILLION got blood clots. There’s a higher rate of blood clots in women from certain types of birth control.
This moron imposter president inherited a vaccine program on autopilot and all he had to do was nothing and he still managed to eff it up anyway.
The PROOF is in the PUDDING!!
I’ll take a jello shot, though...
Cigarette company refutes the idea that smoking causes cancer.
Quit minimizing the threat simply because you got the shot and think everyone else should too. There is somewhere between 3,000 and 10,000 who have died from the vaccine but your precious CDC is hiding the number.
Did you get a selfie when you got your salvation shot?
I am not defending vaccines, but I am faulting really piss poor science invoked to try to favor the product of certain companies over other companies. It's politics, not science.
One might hypothesize that COVID vaccines cause dementia and narcissism in politicians. I won't mount a refutation.
You are something that raises suspicion, fascisto Fauci.
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