Covid-19 vaccine: Denmark examines inflammatory complication as a possible side effect – franceinfo

The Danish Medicines Agency announced Thursday, August 26, to examine a possible link between pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome (Pims) and vaccination against Covid-19, after a suspected case in a vaccinated adolescent. The health authority “in collaboration with the European Medicines Agency (EMA), investigates whether a rare inflammatory condition, Pims, previously observed as a side effect of Covid-19 in children and adolescents, can also occur as a result of ‘a vaccination “, she wrote in a communicated (in English).

According to the Danish agency, “a link to the vaccine has not been documented, but it also cannot be ruled out”. This survey, for which no timetable has been given, does not modify the recommendations of the health authorities who call on those over 12 to be vaccinated against Covid-19.

An extremely rare and severe complication, pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome has affected some children and adolescents after infection with the coronavirus, particularly in France. The High Authority for Health has alerted in July on this subject. In early August, a case in a 17-year-old Dane was reported to health authorities. The teenager did not have Covid-19, but had received the two doses of the vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech. He has since recovered and “in good health”, specifies the agency.