{"id":1805249,"date":"2023-01-13T17:04:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T22:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1805249"},"modified":"2023-01-13T17:09:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T22:09:31","slug":"pfizers-updated-covid-booster-linked-to-potential-stroke-risk-cdc-launches-additional-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pfizers-updated-covid-booster-linked-to-potential-stroke-risk-cdc-launches-additional-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer\u2019s Updated COVID Booster Linked To Potential Stroke Risk, CDC Launches \u2018Additional Investigation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpfizers-updated-covid-booster-linked-to-potential-stroke-risk-cdc-launches-additional-investigation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1805249&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/cdc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> Friday&#8217;s announcement by the CDC that it has launched an \u201cadditional investigation\u201d In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/pfizer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pfizer<\/a>\u2019s updated COVID booster after a government safety monitoring system detected a potential stroke risk for those 65 and older who received the pharmaceutical giant\u2019s bivalent shot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two bivalent COVID vaccines have been developed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/news-events\/press-announcements\/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-authorizes-moderna-pfizer-biontech-bivalent-covid-19-vaccines-use\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Authorized<\/a> FDA in August of last year to increase protection against the virus&#8217; progression into new strains such as Omicron. The boosters now include both a component from Omicron and a component that was originally COVID. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/emergency-preparedness-and-response\/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19\/covid-19-bivalent-vaccine-boosters#:~:text=Get%20more%20COVID%2D19%20facts,caused%20by%20the%20omicron%20variant.\">According<\/a> To the FDA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCDC\u2019s Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD), a near real-time surveillance system, met the statistical criteria to prompt additional investigation into whether there was a safety concern for ischemic stroke in people ages 65 and older who received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, Bivalent,\u201d The CDC stated in a a href=&#8221;https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/vaccines\/safety\/bivalent-boosters.html&#8221;>statement<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The concerning VSD signal has caused the agency to question whether those 65 and older who received Pfizer\u2019s Bivalent COVID vaccine were at an increased risk of having an ischemic stroke up to three weeks after their vaccination compared to 22-44 days after the shot. The CDC said Moderna\u2019s Bivalent COVID vaccine was not identified for the same risk by its monitoring system.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the CDC, there are approximately \u201cmay be other confounding factors contributing\u201d to the VSD\u2019s signaling of the Pfizer vaccine and emphasized that other studies conducted on Pfizer and Moderna Bivalent vaccines did not validate the signal. The agency also stated that there have been no new reports of strokes in the United States or elsewhere in the world following the update vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the totality of the data currently suggests that it is very unlikely that the signal in VSD represents a true clinical risk, we believe it is important to share this information with the public,\u201d According to the CDC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The CDC has continued to encourage vaccination despite the findings of the government agency&#8217;s new investigation. \u201ceveryone ages 6 months of age and older stay up-to-date with COVID-19 vaccination,\u201d All of them \u201celigible to receive an updated (bivalent) vaccine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Friday that it has launched an \u201cadditional investigation\u201d into Pfizer\u2019s updated COVID booster after a government safety monitoring system detected a potential stroke risk for those 65 and older who received the pharmaceutical giant\u2019s bivalent shot.\u00a0 Bivalent COVID vaccines were authorized by the FDA last August &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1805252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7631,14822,5097,4127,6202,3976,5989,5952,14820,4238,7514,14821,11176,6195],"class_list":["post-1805249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-additional","tag-booster","tag-cdc","tag-covid","tag-daily","tag-investigation","tag-launches","tag-linked","tag-pfizers","tag-potential","tag-risk","tag-stroke","tag-updated","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1805249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1805252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}