{"id":130311,"date":"2021-11-09T21:22:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T05:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/health-canada-adds-autoimmune-disorder-warning-to-astrazeneca-jj-covid-19-vaccines"},"modified":"2021-11-09T21:22:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T05:22:16","slug":"health-canada-adds-autoimmune-disorder-warning-to-astrazeneca-jj-covid-19-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/health-canada-adds-autoimmune-disorder-warning-to-astrazeneca-jj-covid-19-vaccines","title":{"rendered":"Health Canada adds autoimmune disorder warning to AstraZeneca, J&amp;J COVID-19 vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/health-canada-adds-autoimmune-disorder-warning-to-astrazeneca-jj-covid-19-vaccines.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/health-canada\/\">Health Canada<\/a> is updating the labels for the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/AstraZeneca\">AstraZeneca<\/a> and Johnson &amp; Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/covid\">COVID-19<\/a> vaccines to add immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), an autoimmune condition, as a potential side effect.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Tuesday, the agency said very rare cases of ITP have been reported internationally after receiving the Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca) and Janssen (J&amp;J) COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>ITP is a disorder that can cause easy or excessive bruising and bleeding, which results from unusually low blood platelet levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Canada is updating the labels for the AstraZeneca and Johnson &amp; Johnson COVID-19 vaccines to add immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), an autoimmune condition, as a potential side effect. In a statement on Tuesday, the agency said very rare cases of ITP have been reported internationally after receiving the Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca) and Janssen (J&amp;J) COVID-19 vaccines. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}