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FDA staff recommends watching for Bell’s palsy in Moderna and Pfizer vaccine recipients
-The FDA said that there were four reported cases of Bell’s palsy among Moderna’s 30,000 trial participants, including three who got the vaccine.
-However, “currently available information is insufficient to determine a causal relationship with the vaccine,” the FDA wrote in briefing documents.
-The FDA’s guidance for Moderna’s vaccine issued Tuesday was similar to its guidance on Pfizer’s vaccine last week.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff recommends monitoring people who get Pfizer or Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine shots for possible cases of Bell’s palsy, saying it’s not necessarily a side effect but worth watching out for after a handful of trial participants got the condition, which causes half of your face to droop. A 54-page staff report released Tuesday said there were four reported cases of Bell’s palsy among Moderna’s more than 30,000 clinical trial participants. Three of the participants who got Bell’s palsy also received the vaccine instead of a placebo shot. Pfizer’s trial similarly had four reported cases of Bell’s palsy out of some 43,000 participants. All four Bell’s palsy cases in Pfizer’s trial got the vaccine and not the placebo. The staff, which endorsed the emergency use of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine, said there wasn’t enough data to tie the cases directly to the shots, but it warranted close scrutiny. Two of the cases of Bell’s palsy among Moderna’s vaccine group have since “resolved” while one was still ongoing at the time of the report, the FDA staff said. The vaccinated participants experienced the paralysis between 22 days and 32 days following inoculation, they said.
Bell’s palsy causes a sudden freezing or weakness in a person’s facial muscles that’s temporary for most people, according to the Mayo Clinic. The exact cause isn’t known, but it’s believed to come from either a viral infection or swelling and inflammation of the nerve that controls the muscles on one side of your face, the Mayo Clinic said. “Currently available information is insufficient to determine a causal relationship with the vaccine,” the FDA staff wrote. The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee meets Thursday to review Moderna’s vaccine. It endorsed Pfizer’s vaccine a week ago, before the FDA granted formal authorization Friday to begin distribution. Health-care workers lined up at locations across the U.S. to get some of the first injections of Pfizer’s vaccine Monday. Dr. Paul Offit, a voting member of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, agreed that the condition is worth monitoring as the vaccine rolls out. He voted in favor of recommending Pfizer’s vaccine last week. “I’m not dismissing that yet,” he said in an interview with CNBC. When Merck submitted its data from its rotavirus vaccine trial, there were five cases of Kawasaki disease but none in the placebo group. That was “statistically significant” and caused Merck to change its label to note the cases. While there was a small imbalance of cases in the vaccine group compared with the placebo, the FDA said it’s not certain whether the drug contributed to the paralysis “because the number of cases was small and not more frequent than expected in the general population.”
“There were no other notable patterns or numerical imbalances between treatment groups for specific categories of adverse events, including other neurologic, neuro-inflammatory, and thrombotic events, that would suggest a causal relationship to the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine,” FDA staff wrote in the documents. The FDA’s guidance for Moderna’s vaccine issued Tuesday was similar to its recommendations for Pfizer’s vaccine last week. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said Pfizer’s vaccine doesn’t appear to cause the condition. Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said in an interview with JAMA on Monday that the agency would be able to easily and quickly access data on Bell’s palsy cases once the vaccines are administered. “Our working hypothesis is this just was an imbalance in background rates like we’ve seen in other trials, but we’ll make sure that we’re going to actually query for that just to bring that question to close,” Marks said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/15/fda-staff-recommends-watching-for-bells-palsy-in-moderna-and-pfizer-vaccine-recipients.html
American Medical Association Rescinds Previous Statement Against Prescription of Hydroxychloroquine to COVID-19 Patients
CHICAGO, IL – The American Medical Association (AMA), in a surprising move, has officially rescinded a previous statement against the use of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in the treatment of COVID-19 patients, giving physicians the okay to return to utilizing the medication at their discretion. Previously, the AMA had issued a statement in March that was highly critical of HCQ in regards to its use as a proposed treatment by some physicians in the early stages of COVID-19. In addition to discouraging doctors from ordering the medication in bulk for “off-label” use – HCQ is typically used to treat diseases such as malaria – they also claimed that there was no proof that it was effective in treating COVID, and that its use could be harmful in some instances.
However, on page 18 of a recent AMA memo, issued on October 30, (resolution 509, page 3) the organization officially reversed their stance on HCQ, stating that its potential for good currently may supersede the threat of any potential harmful side effects. So, there we have it. HCQ could not be approved before the election, because President Trump had recommended it. Meanwhile, with an 8o +% reduced risk of having to be admitted to the hospital if administered with Azithromycin and Zinc as soon as testing positive or symptoms occurred, many (70000+) lives could have been saved.
https://lenbilen.com/2020/12/14/american-medical-association-rescinds-previous-statement-against-prescription-of-hydroxychloroquine-to-covid-19-patients/
A look at the “Fauci effect” and other med ed lessons from 2020
https://www.ama-assn.org/
Dr. Simone Gold discusses benefits of Hydroxychloroquine after video promoting drug was censored
https://www.kusi.com/exclusive-dr-simone-gold-discusses-benefits-of-hydroxychloroquine-after-video-promoting-drug-was-censored/
Joint statement on ordering, prescribing or dispensing COVID-19 medications
https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/joint-statement-ordering-prescribing-or-dispensing-covid-19
Read page 18 of a recent AMA memo,
https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/2020-10/nov20-handbook-addendum.pdf
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>Then why would Lin include the guy's new twitter account to follow?
Suspect not to follow but rather to dig. No other way to draw attention to it other than to say it. So maybe he wanted a dig on the QT.. or is he part of the problem we have been experiencing here?
Interesting.. Tor use and no Sauce for your claim but demand it of others!
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>Post your proofs, or GTFO. Lin's the real con artist, here. Roscoe has been spot on for most things, save a couple of missteps here and there. Lin pointed him out because Lin needed to.