🔴Belgium Halts Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine for Under 41s After First EU Death

🇧🇪💉@COVID19Up: Belgium said on Wednesday it was suspending vaccinations with Johnson & Johnson's Janssen COVID-19 vaccine for people under the age of 41 following the first death in Europe from severe side-effects associated with the shot.

"The Inter-ministerial conference has decided to temporarily administer Janssen's vaccine to the general population from the age of 41 years, pending a more detailed benefit-risk analysis by the EMA (European Medicines Agency)," Belgium's health minister and seven regional counterparts said in a statement.

The EMA, the European Union's medicines regulator, said it had asked the U.S. drugmaker to carry out a series of additional studies to assess a possible link between the shot and the rare clotting condition.

https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2021-05-26/belgium-halts-j-j-covid-vaccine-for-under-41s-after-one-dies

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