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J&J to restart vaccine shipments to Europe after regulatory green light

European Medicines Agency says jab’s benefits still outweigh risks despite blood clot concerns

Johnson & Johnson will restart shipments of its Covid-19 vaccine to Europe after the continent’s health agency concluded the benefits outweighed the risks even after it identified a “possible link” between the jab and rare blood clots. 

The European Medicines Agency said on Tuesday that a rare combination of blood clots and low platelet count should be added to the list of side-effects from the J&J jab. However, it added that the overall benefits of the single-shot vaccine exceeded the risks of these reactions.

J&J said it would resume shipment of 200m vaccine doses to the EU, Norway and Iceland and update its information on the diagnosis and management of the “very rare adverse event”.

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