Η Finland will suspend the administration of the vaccine against Moderna coronavirus in men born from 1991 onwards, because of reports of a rare cardiovascular side effect, the country's Institute of Health and Welfare announced today.
Yesterday, Wednesday, health officials in the Sweden and Denmark also announced the suspension of the granting of the the same vaccine for all young adults and children.
Norway already uses the Pfizer vaccine for all children and now proposes to use it for all children. men under 30 years old.
The Nordic countries based their decision on an unpublished Nordic research study, which includes data from Finland, Finland, Sweden, Sweden and the Netherlands. Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
«This study found that the men under 30 years old, who had been granted the Moderna Spikevax vaccine, had a higher risk in relation to others show myocarditis»said the director of the health institute Mika Salminen.
As he said, myocarditis, i.e. inflammation of the heart muscle (myocardium), usually passes on its own within a few days.
Salminen clarified that as a precautionary measure Finland will only give boys and young men the Pfizer vaccine.
A representative of Moderna said late yesterday, Wednesday, evening that the company is aware of the decisions of the Swedish and Danish regulators.
«These are usually mild cases and people most often recover within a short period of time after routine treatment and rest. Ο risk of myocarditis increases significantly for those who get COVID-19 and vaccination is the best way to protect themselves,» he said.
Regulatory authorities in the US and EU and the World Health Organization have also stressed that the benefits of mRNA-based vaccines, which Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech use to prevent coronavirus infection, outweigh the risks.
