UK: COVID-19 VACCINE CAUSING ANAPHYLACTOID REACTIONS, PEOPLE WITH SEVERE ALLERGIES TOLD NOT TO TAKE IT
December 9th, 2020Well, that didn’t take long.
Via: Daily Mail:
The UK’s world-first Covid-19 vaccine rollout has hit problems within 24 hours after anyone with a serious allergy to medicines or food was warned not to have the Pfizer jab because two NHS staff fell ill on V-Day.
The number of people set to be barred is not known, but up to 7million people in Britain have allergies severe enough to require medical care, according to the NHS, while around 250,000 people need to carry an EpiPen at all times.
Both the unnamed healthcare workers, who carried EpiPens, are ‘recovering well’ from reactions suffered shortly after their injections on the first day of Britain’s biggest ever mass vaccination programme.
They suffered an anaphylactoid reaction to the vaccine, which is milder than anaphylaxis, and tends to involve a rash, shortness of breath, swelling of the face and tongue or a drop in blood pressure, the NHS says.
But despite the two allergy cases the Government is continuing to vaccinate between 5,000 and 7,000 people per day across the UK with 800,000 Pfizer doses already in hospitals and millions more on the way.
Everyone turning up for the vaccine will be asked if they have any allergies to vaccines, food or medicines.
Today Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) gave precautionary advice to all 50 NHS trusts now vaccinating the population that anyone who has a history of ‘significant’ allergic reactions should not receive the vaccine.
