A 43-year-old father of seven from Ocean Springs suffered a stroke hours after receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Brad Malagarie was otherwise healthy before he suffered the stroke April 6 while at work. He had gone on his lunch break to get the vaccine and had the stroke later that afternoon, said his aunt, Celeste O’Keefe.
Malagarie had the most common form of stroke, an ischemic stroke, which is caused by a blood clot in an artery leading to the brain. He is being treated at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, O’Keefe said.
She said that Ochsner reported the stroke to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System managed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“He didn’t jump out of an airplane,” O’Keefe said. “He didn’t eat anything different. Nothing was different in his life except the vaccine. Whatever happened to Brad, it was a contributing factor.”
The FDA and CDC on Tuesday recommended “a pause in the use of this vaccine out of an abundance of caution” after six women ages 18 to 48 developed a rare and severe type of blood clot — cerebral venous sinus thrombosis — six to 13 days after Johnson & Johnson vaccinations. Use of the vaccine is suspended until the cases are reviewed.
Mississippi and most other states have announced that the vaccine will not be available for the time being.
The CDC and FDA had by April 2 recorded a total of 32 ischemic strokes following COVID-19 vaccinations. The reported strokes are considered “serious adverse events” and are being investigated.
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