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A second healthcare worker in Alaska has suffered an allergic reaction after receiving Pfizer Inc’s coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday. The man, a staff member at Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau, started experiencing eye puffiness, light headedness and a scratchy throat 10 minutes after being injected, a statement from the hospital read. Doctors determined he was … Read more
FDA reveals vials of Pfizer’s vaccine contain extra doses that could be given to 6.86 million Americans by Christmas Pharmacists across the U.S. have discovered vials of Pfizer’s coronavirus shot contain up to 40% more vaccine than expected Many vials have enough of the scarce vaccine to give six or seven doses, instead of the … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: Alaska healthcare worker with no history of drug allergies suffered serious ‘anaphylactic-like’ reaction after getting Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine A healthcare worker in Alaska suffered a severe allergic reaction after receiving Pfizer Inc’s coronavirus vaccine Her or she was hospitalized and is still being treated as of Wednesday morning The worker had no history … Read more
Health officials were today slammed for failing to reveal exactly how many Brits have been vaccinated against Covid, despite promising to publish regular updates about the mammoth operation. Government bosses have repeatedly insisted the figures on coronavirus jab uptake — which Public Health England releases each week for flu in a surveillance report — will … Read more
The head of Operation Warp Speed says the US government is currently in talks to purchase more doses of Pfizer Inc’s coronavirus vaccine for Americans. Currently, the US has plans to receive 100 million doses of the vaccines – enough to inoculate 50 million people – from the New York-based drug company. However, a recent … Read more
Donald Trump hailed the FDA’s approval of the coronavirus vaccine as a ‘medical miracle’ on Friday evening – and said the drug will ‘save millions of lives and end the pandemic once and for all’. Millions of doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine are being shipped out across the US, with the first vaccinations due to … Read more
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) vaccine advisory panel has voted to give Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine emergency approval. After nearly nine hours of deliberation, 17 members of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted in favor of issuing emergency use authorization for the first coronavirus vaccine to be distributed in the U.S. … Read more
The severe allergic reactions suffered by two UK health care workers who got Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine yesterday are ‘of some concern,’ Dr Anthony Fauci said on Wednesday afternoon. During a Harvard University forum hosted by CNN’s Dr Sanjay Gupta, Dr Fauci did not seem particularly shocked that these reactions occurred, but he did warn that … Read more
Nearly three people will be vaccinated during the first rollout of Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine in the US. During a press briefing of the federal government’s Operation Warp Speed on Wednesday, officials said 636 locations, mostly large health-care systems with enough storage capacity, will be receiving the jabs. According to chief operating officer Gen Gustave Perna, … Read more
BREAKING: Canada becomes second country to approve Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine a week after the UK gave the shot the greenlight – but the US FDA won’t authorize it for at least another day On Wednesday, Health Canada approved the coronavirus vaccine made by Pfizer Inc and its German partner BioNTech SE The government is set … Read more