A national census has begun to investigate post-inoculation vaccine reactions to AstraZeneca's new coronavirus vaccine.
The AstraZeneca vaccine was added to the official vaccination this month, and a research group from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is recruiting applicants over the age of 20 to investigate side reactions after vaccination from the 21st.
Inoculation began at 9:30 am at Juntendo Clinic attached to Juntendo University School of Medicine in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo.
Doctors pointed out that vaccines are at risk of blood clots in very rare cases, and explained that public vaccinations are, in principle, intended for people over the age of 40 unless necessary.
After that, we obtained consent and inoculated, and observed the progress for 30 minutes.
The hospital plans to recruit applicants with a goal of about 500 people, and the research group will analyze the body temperature and the condition of the inoculation site by recording them in a diary until 4 weeks after the second inoculation. is.
A woman in her twenties who cooperated with the survey said, "I was worried that I was over 40 years old in principle, but I was more worried about infection. I decided to participate because I wanted to go home."
A woman in her 40s said, "I couldn't make any reservations for vaccination in the local government, and I had five children and the school was reopening, so I participated in trying to get it."
Toshio Naito, a member of the research group and chief professor of the Juntendo University Department of General Medicine, said, "I would like to collect data and make it widely available to see if there are any side effects peculiar to Japanese people."