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Oregon moves ahead with Moderna vaccine after California pauses batch
California health officials opted to hold up thousands of Moderna vaccine doses after a cluster of allergic reactions at one clinic. Oregon said Wednesday that it will not delay administering the vaccine.
Posted: Jan 20, 2021 5:35 PM
Posted By: Jamie Parfitt
SALEM, Ore. The Oregon Health Authority said on Wednesday that it will not delay administering the Moderna vaccine after their counterparts in California opted to pause distribution of a batch of the same vaccine over allergy concerns.
OHA sent out a recommendation to local vaccination sites to continue inoculations with the same Moderna batch, after the CDC said that it did not think the vaccine should be halted.
Moderna lot in Oregon under investigation; monitoring continues (Salem, OR – January 20, 2021) State health officials in Oregon recommend that local vaccination sites continue to administer COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna Lot 041L20A, after the state's immunization program received advice from federal officials to continue to dispense the doses. Moderna Lot 041L20A has been associated with six adverse events at a single site in California. On Jan. 19th, medical experts from the Western States Scientific Safety Review Committee evaluated the reports and will be following up with an announcement of their analysis later today, reaffirming the CDC recommendations to continue to administer doses from this Moderna lot of vaccine. This vaccine lot consists of approximately one million doses of vaccines. In Oregon, 57,400 doses of Moderna Lot 041L20A have been distributed to 118 vaccination sites. As of Jan. 20, Oregon vaccination sites had administered 30,803 doses from the lot. Oregon
Oregon Health Authority recommends continued use of Moderna vaccine
Based on federal officials advice after Calif. adverse reactions reported
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) Oregon health officials recommended Wednesday that local vaccination sites continue to administer COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna Lot 041L20A after the state’s immunization program received advice from federal officials to continue to dispense the doses.
Moderna Lot 041L20A has been associated with six adverse events at a single site in California. On Jan. 19, medical experts from the Western States Scientific Safety Review Committee evaluated the reports and will be following up with an announcement of their analysis later today, reaffirming the CDC recommendations to continue to administer doses from this Moderna lot of vaccine.