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EU probes low platelet safety issue with COVID-19 shots

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EU regulators are reviewing reports of low blood platelets in patients who received any of the three approved COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech, AstraZeneca and Moderna. AZ vaccine safety update. The committee said appropriate medical treatment must be available in the event of an anaphylactic event with the vaccine.

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Novartis signs new initial agreement with BioNTech to support fill and finish of the mRNA Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine

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At least 24 million doses of the mRNA-based vaccine will be filled in 2022 into vials under sterile conditions at Novartis Technical Operations state-of-the-art facility in Ljubljana, Slovenia New agreement follows earlier supply agreement for the fill and finish of more than 50 million doses in 2021 at the Novartis Stein site in Switzerland.

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PRAC investigates heart inflammation reports with Pfizer vaccine

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During an early May meeting, the European Medicines Agency’s safety committee concluded two reviews of safety signals related to COVID-19 vaccines, while it continued following other vaccine-related “topics of interest.” These included reports of heart muscle inflammation after receipt of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. .

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Their waists got smaller… They also saw an improvement in fat-regulating hormones. …so you can see that there are no fillers…. And serves as your body’s “master regulating switch.” As a result, they dropped their body mass index (BMI) levels from 31.5 They also lost belly fat….