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COVID vaccine causes serious allergies in NHS staff on Day One.

Thu 4:51 am +01:00, 10 Dec 2020

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Calls for calm over Pfizer vaccine roll-out after two NHS staff suffer ‘anaphylactoid reaction’: Scientists urge public not to panic after regulators warn people with history of ‘significant’ allergies NOT to have jab

Both the people are recovering following the first day of the mass vaccination programme, it is understood
In the US vaccine trial carried out by Pfizer, 137 out of around 19,000 people given vaccine had a reaction
The NHS in England said that all the trusts involved with the vaccination programme have been informed
MHRA has given advice anyone who has a history of ‘significant’ allergic reactions should not get the vaccine
Yesterday the NHS embarked on its colossal plan to vaccinate the entire UK population against coronavirus
Dr June Raine, chief executive of MHRA, told MPs there had been two allergic reactions to the jab
Have you or someone you know suffered a reaction to the jab? Email James.Gant@mailonline.co.uk

By JAMES GANT and MARTIN ROBINSON CHIEF REPORTER and JACK WRIGHT FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 09:56, 9 December 2020 | UPDATED: 01:59, 10 December 2020

WHAT ARE THE KNOWN SIDE EFFECTS FROM THE PFIZER VACCINE?

The UK medicines regulator advised today that anyone who has a history of ‘significant’ allergic reactions to medicines, food or vaccines should not get the Pfizer coronavirus jab.

Dr June Raine, the chief executive of the MHRA, told Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee that this was not identified in the trials.

‘We know from very extensive clinical trials that this wasn’t a feature,’ she said.

Allergic reactions to the vaccine are ‘very rare’, according to the trials involving more than 40,000 people.

Pfizer found a ‘very small number’ during its phase three clinical studies, or 137 out of 19,000 people who got the vaccine.

They also identified 12 possible side-effects from the vaccine, with seven identified as ‘very common’ meaning they are likely to affect more than one in ten people. Below are the known side effects.

The patient safety leaflet for the vaccine cautions that anyone with an allergy to any of the active substances in the vaccine should not receive the jab.

It adds: ‘Signs of an allergic reaction may include itchy skin rash, shortness of breath and swelling of the face or tongue.’

Allergic reactions to the vaccine are:

Very common (Likely to affect more than one in ten people)

Pain at injection site
Tiredness
Muscle pain
Chills
Joint pain
Fever
Headache

Common (Likely to affect up to one in ten people)

Injection site swelling
Redness at injection site
Nausea

Uncommon (May affect one in 100 people)

Enlarged lymph nodes
Feeling unwell

(TAP – Some trial people died – why no mention of risk of death?)

British scientists yesterday attempted to quash public panic about the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine which is currently being rolled-out across the country, following reports that two NHS staff suffered an ‘anaphylactoid reaction’ just after being immunised on V-Day yesterday.

Within 24 hours of the biggest-ever mass vaccination programme in British history, the UK’s drug regulator told anyone with a serious allergy to medicines or food was told not to have the much-vaunted jab.

The number of people set to be barred is not known, though up to seven million people in the country 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 needed immediate treatment but are ‘recovering well’ after they developed symptoms shortly after receiving the jab. It is not known if either person needed to use the EpiPens they both carry with them at all times.

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.

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.

Yesterday the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) – which authorised emergency use of the vaccine at a breathtaking speed – gave precautionary advice to all 50 NHS trusts now vaccinating the population that anyone who has a history of ‘significant’ allergic reactions to medicines or food should not receive the vaccine.

However, British scientists called for calm as public fears of the alleged dangers of the new vaccine – which is said to have an 95 per cent efficacy against infection – threaten to derail the NHS’ mass inoculation programme in the latest stage of the pandemic.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9034115/Allergy-risk-Pfizer-jab-TWO-patients-fall-ill-V-Day-rollout.html