Older adults who received last year's COVID booster and a high-dose version of the flu vaccine in the same visit may have a potential increased risk of stroke, according to a new FDA-funded study.
"There is no need for panic, and emphatically no need to stop giving COVID and flu shots at the same time to older adults," said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious diseases specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, while he reiterated that more research is needed*.
It's just a "Small" increased risk of stroke, and therefore unnecessary to fret about.
The stroke outcomes were non-hemorrhagic stroke, transient ischemic attack, a combined outcome of non-hemorrhagic stroke and/or TIA, and hemorrhagic stroke.
Incident stroke outcomes were defined as the first recorded stroke for an individual during the observation period following the exposure, with no previous outcome identified during a predefined 365-day clean window.
Stroke outcomes were identified using International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification codes.
Note the framing of the headline, the ethos of which is echoed throughout the article: "Getting flu and COVID shot together still reasonable amid safety review of potential stroke risk: Experts."
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