“I don’t want to be a guinea pig”: this is what he replied to the doctor who, at the Riese vaccination center, told him that he could not choose the vaccine he wanted to do and would inject him with the available one, he Johnson & Johnson.
The man, PA, 63-year-old resident in the area of the old hospital in Sant’Andrea di Montebelluna, has been taking anticoagulants for 23 years, having already had two thromboses.
The wife had gone to the general practitioner in the previous days asking if it was appropriate or not to vaccinate her husband.
The doctor answered absolutely yes but advised him to do Pfizer’s Corminaty in a single dose. To confirm, he also called his angiologist on the phone, who repeated the same thing to him.
The man brought with him all the documentation relating to his problems: “He hasn’t even looked at it – says his wife – My husband takes Eliquis twice a day, an anticoagulant, after taking Coumadin for 20 years” .
According to the woman’s account, when her husband told the attending physician that his primary care physician and angiologist had strongly advised him to be given Pfizer he would hear “They don’t know anything, I’m a head physician.”
At that point the man replied “I’m not a guinea pig”, and the doctor “So, refuses?”, “Of course I refuse” concluded the Montebellunese, was invited to sign and left the clinic.
“What do you mean they don’t know anything? – says his wife still tense about what happened – Our doctor, who unfortunately is about to retire, has had a long experience in Africa and has administered vaccines by the thousands. Will he know something about it, or not? ”.
The story reopens the discussion on vaccines and its rare side effects, a discussion that actually never ended.
Ema, the European Medicines Agency, recently ruled on Johnson & Johnson’s Jansen vaccine, underlining how the Prac (the medical authority against drug risks “observed that blood clots, in cases of side effects that also led to death, occurred in the veins of the brain (cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, Cvst) and abdomen (splanchnic vein thrombosis) and arteries, along with low platelet levels and sometimes bleeding.
Therefore, the same Ema advises “Contact a doctor immediately if, after a few days from vaccination, severe or persistent headaches or blurred vision occur, or if unexpected bruises appear on the skin at a point other than the vaccination site, as well as shortness of breath, chest pain, leg swelling or persistent abdominal pain. In these cases, inform the doctor that you have received the Johnson Covid-19 vaccine in the previous days “.
Healthcare professionals – continues the EMA – must pay attention to the signs and symptoms of thrombus embolism and thrombocytopenia in order to be able to promptly treat those affected in line with the available guidelines “.
In all this, the EMA also underlines how on 20 April the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (Prac) concluded that the benefits of the Covid-19 Janssen vaccine in combating the still widespread threat of Covid-19 (which in turn causes clotting problems and can be fatal) continue to outweigh the risk of side effects.
What, however, probably people at risk of thrombosis or who have had thrombosis would like to know with absolute certainty is the statistics relating only to those at risk.
Even more simply, how many thrombotic subjects have been subjected to these vaccines and how many have been those who have had serious side effects or have even died?
In addition, international bodies and medical scientific societies have long since issued some recommendations on how to carry out vaccination on subjects taking anticoagulants, just like Eliquis, advocating the opportunity to skip a dose and, after injecting the vaccine, press the injection site firmly for at least 5 minutes, as opposed to two minutes as it normally happens, as anticoagulant therapy requires more prolonged pressure than to avoid bruising.
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