There does not seem to be a relationship between the covid-19 vaccines and the . Or at least not found. This is the conclusion that emerges from the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS).
According to this, until May 9, 2022, 101,369,478 doses of vaccines against covid-19 have been administered in Spain and 70,965 notifications of adverse events have been registered. Of these, the most frequently reported are general (fever and pain in the vaccination area), nervous system (headache and dizziness) and musculoskeletal (myalgia and arthralgia) disorders.
The majority of notifications correspond to people between 18 and 65 years of age (87%), while in smaller groups only 1,193 have been received by people between 12 and 17 years of age, and 389 among children under 12 years of age.
Regarding autoimmune hepatitis that affects children under 16 years of age, the 15th Pharmacovigilance Report on covid-19 Vaccines has not found any link. “Based on information from the scientific literature, autoimmune hepatitis cases reported globally and additional data provided by marketing authorization holders, the PRAC has concluded that the evidence available to date does not support the existence of a causal relationship between the administration of Comirnaty and Spikevax, and reported cases of autoimmune hepatitis,” the report states.
As mentioned, only the possible relationship between hepatitis and the Comirnaty (Pfizer/BioNTech) and Spikevax (Moderna) vaccines has been analyzed, leaving aside those of Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca) and Janssen, because, in the Currently, its use in Spain is very marginal. “The Vaxzevria and COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen vaccines currently have marginal use in Spain with practically no new notifications being received in the SEFV in this period.”
Origin of the relationship
The hypothesis that vaccines against covid and even covid itself could be related to childhood hepatitis arose after other previous hypotheses were ruled out and it was observed that many of the children affected by the new hepatitis had recently had covid.
“SARS-CoV-2 was identified in 18% of reported cases in the UK and in 11 (11%) of 97 cases in England with available data who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on admission; three other cases had tested positive in the 8 weeks prior to admission,” The Lancet reported.
The fact that hepatitis had to do with the covid infection, that it was related to vaccines, had a lot to do with the dissemination through social networks of an alleged scientific article, entitled “Pfizer study confirms that the mRNA injection accumulates in the liver and causes hepatitis. As several verifiers have been able to certify, this information was completely false, since no similar publication has been issued from Pfizer.
In addition, according to the WHO, “Hypotheses related to the side effects of covid-19 vaccines are currently not supported, since the vast majority of affected children did not receive the covid-19 vaccine.”
At the moment, a total of 26 cases have been reported in Spain, while 614 have been identified worldwide, from the Report on the Threats of Communicable Diseases of the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC).
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