MANILA, Philippines — Side effects reported by health care workers who are senior citizens vaccinated with CoronaVac vaccines developed by China’s Sinovac BioTech are “within the usual limits,” the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Thursday.
This is one of the factors the agency considered in deciding to allow the use of CoronaVac shots to senior citizens, when it was only previously recommended to be administered on clinically healthy individuals aged 18 to 59 years old, FDA Director General Eric Domingo said.
Domingo said there are about 700 healthcare workers who are senior citizens who received CoronaVac jabs upon signing waivers with their respective hospitals.
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