The men in their 30s died this month within days of receiving their second Moderna doses,<\/strong>\u00a0the ministry said in a release. Each had a shot from one of three manufacturing lots suspended on Thursday. The causes of death are being investigated.<\/p>\nJapan halted the use of 1.63 million Moderna doses shipped to 863 vaccination centres nationwide, more than a week after the domestic distributor, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co, received reports of contaminants in some vials.<\/p>\n
“At this time, we do not have any evidence that these deaths are caused by the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine,”<\/strong>\u00a0Moderna and Takeda said in a statement on Saturday. “It is important to conduct a formal investigation to determine whether there is any connection.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\nOne public health authority asked the public not to jump to conclusions.<\/p>\n
The government has also said no safety or efficacy issues had been identified and the suspension of the three Moderna batches was a precaution. Fumie Sakamoto, the infection control manager at St. Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo, cautioned against drawing a connection between the shots and the fatalities reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n
“There may only be a temporal relationship between vaccination and death,”<\/strong>\u00a0Sakamoto told Reuters. “There are so many things we still don’t know to make any conclusions on these two cases.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\nAccording to the Japanese government, both of the men who died had a fever the day after their second dose and died two days after getting the fever. There has been no evidence that their shots contained contaminants, a health ministry official claimed (though they were from the contaminated batches, so the fact that they died suddenly might suggest that something was off).<\/p>\n
Then again, their deaths could simply have been caused by rare side effects, not the contaminants found in the vaccines.<\/p>\n
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