Authorities in Europe and Israel say they have not identified a safety signal for stroke related to Pfizer’s updated COVID-19 vaccine.
“As to your question on stroke, EMA can confirm that to date no such signal has been identified in the EU,” a spokesperson for the European Medicines Agency (EMA) told The Epoch Times via email on Jan. 20.
Salman Zarka, an Israeli health official, told reporters in a recent briefing that authorities had not detected a stroke signal for Pfizer’s bivalent booster, Israeli media reported.
“We did not find such a finding even after we went back and rechecked all our data after the announcement,” Zarka was quoted as saying. Israel’s Ministry of Health did not respond to a request for comment….