August 29 2021 Trial Site News
Recently Japan suspended select batches of Moderna’s mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine due to contaminants in the product with the most recent incident occurring in Okinawa. Unfortunately it would appear two days earlier two men died after receiving jabs that could have been from one of the defective batches. Meanwhile the health ministry inspects the deaths. They have not causally linked the deaths to the mRNA vaccine product. The health ministry came out with a public statement declaring “We are suspending the use of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines as foreign substances were spotted in some of them.” In summary two different mRNA-1273 batches are suspended, first three batches totaling 1.63 million doses that led to the deaths of two men, one aged 30 and the other 38, and another batch in Okinawa. Japan’s health ministry investigates any causal links.
Japan’s been severely hit by the Delta variant as the country’s population experiences record numbers of infections. The daily death count isn’t as high as the previous wave but it is moving up. About 44% of Japan’s population is completely vaccinated yet with the Delta variant the vaccinated can become infected and serve …
