After J&J Vaccine Pause, Urgent Safety Questions for Sputnik And CanSino
Is This A ‘Class Effect’?
Executive Summary
Potentially fatal blood clots seen in AZ and J&J’s COVID-19 vaccine could be common to all adenovirus vector vaccines – but Russia and China developers are dismissing a possible link.
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