EUROPA PRESS La Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS), dependent on the Ministry of Healthregistered a total of 80,941 notifications of adverse events after 102,965,566 doses of vaccines administered against Covid-19, which would correspond to 79 notifications for every 100,000 doses administered.
According to the “17th Pharmacovigilance Report on Covid-19 Vaccines”, published on Monday, events most frequently notified are still the general ailments (fever y ache in the vaccine area), the nervous system (headache y dizziness) and the musculoskeletal system (myalgia and arthralgia). The 65% of adverse reactions were reported by health professionals and 35% from citizenship. most notifications match a women (73%) and people between 18 and 65 (87%).
Of the 80,941 notifications of adverse events, 13,627 They were considered tombs, meaning any adverse event that requires or prolongs hospitalization, gives rise to a significant or persistent disability or congenital malformation, is life-threatening or fatal, as well as any other condition considered clinically significant. Of the 13,627 notifications of adverse events considered serious received up to 11 September, 467 ended in death.
In any case, Health remembers it “These events cannot be considered vaccine related just because they are reported”. “In the vast majority of reported cases where there is information on the Medical history and the drug concomitant, death can be explained by the patient’s previous clinical situation and / or other treatments he was taking and the causes of death are different, without presenting a homogeneous pattern. The Vaccination does not reduce deaths from causes other than Covid-19therefore, during the vaccination campaign it is expected that deaths will continue to occur for other reasons, sometimes in close temporal association with the administration of the vaccine, without this being related to having been vaccinated “, they insist on this point.
By type of vaccine, a total of 43,167 notifications of adverse events in the 67,084,027 doses of Pfizer. As for Modernwas produced 18.729 Adverse event notifications in 24,105,273 doses.
