<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cdc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a> (CDC) announced Friday that it has launched an “additional investigation” into <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pfizer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pfizer</a>’s updated COVID booster after a government safety monitoring system detected a potential stroke risk for those 65 and older who received the pharmaceutical giant’s bivalent shot. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bivalent COVID vaccines were <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> by the FDA last August to provide greater protection against the virus as it progressed into different strains, such as the Omicron variant. The updated boosters include a component of the original COVID strain along with a component from Omicron, </span><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."><span style="font-weight: 400;">according</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to the FDA.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“CDC’s 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,” the CDC said in a </span><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/bivalent-boosters.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">statement</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The concerning VSD signal has caused the agency to question whether those 65 and older who received Pfizer’s 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’s bivalent COVID vaccine was not identified for the same risk by its monitoring system. </span></p>
<p>Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci <a href="https://twitter.com/TeamCavuto/status/1614018318587039744" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News host Neil Cavuto that the detection &#8220;most likely is not going to be a relevant signal because several of the other surveillance and monitoring mechanisms that are put in place have not come up and found this signal.&#8221; Fauci added that it is good that the CDC is letting the public know about what its surveillance system has detected, but the agency is &#8220;not changing any of the recommendations of getting people vaccinated with the bivalent booster.&#8221;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The CDC added that there “may be other confounding factors contributing” to the VSD’s signaling of the Pfizer vaccine and emphasized that other studies conducted on Pfizer and Moderna bivalent vaccines did not validate the signal. Furthermore, the agency said that there has not been any increase in reports in the U.S. or other countries of ischemic strokes following the updated vaccine.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Although 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,” the CDC said. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The new investigation from the government agency has not resulted in any change to its vaccination recommendations, and the CDC continues to urge “everyone ages 6 months of age and older stay up-to-date with COVID-19 vaccination,” including those “eligible to receive an updated (bivalent) vaccine.”</span></p>

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