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Britain’s drug regulator today dismissed safety fears over the Pfizer and BioNTech coronavirus vaccine after a report revealed four people in a trial in the US got Bell’s palsy. The condition, which is usually temporary, causes muscles on one side of the face to droop because of nerves not working properly. Four cases of it … Read more
Four people who got Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine in the firm’s trial developed Bell’s palsy, a form of temporary facial paralysis, according to U.S. regulators’ report on the shot. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulators said there wasn’t any clear way that the vaccine caused Bell’s palsy, but warned that doctors should watch for the alarming … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump’s officials TURNED DOWN offer of more doses of Pfizer’s breakthrough vaccine on top of shots for 50 million – and now might not get any extra supplies until JUNE By Nikki Schwab, Senior U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com Published: 22:00 GMT, 7 December 2020 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 7 December 2020 … Read more
Kristen Choi (pictured), an assistant professor in the School of Nursing at UCLA said she experienced several side effects after taking the second of two shots of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine including pain at the injection side, headache, nausea and a fever of 104.9F A nurse who took part in Pfizer Inc’s late-stage coronavirus vaccine trial … Read more
Business Secretary Alok Sharma today admitted only ‘some’ of the 800,000 shots are already in the UK Fears Britain won’t get any more doses of Pfizer/BioNTech’s approved coronavirus vaccine before New Year may have prompted officials to bump frontline NHS staff down the queue, with care home residents now expected to begin receiving their jabs … Read more
Britain will receive its first batch of Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine within hours after the UK became the first country in the world to approve the jab. Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, England’s deputy chief medical officer, confirmed Britain’s first shipment — which left Pfizer’s Belgian manufacturing plant in lorries last night — will arrive ‘very shortly’, with … Read more
Britain’s regulators today approved Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid vaccine, paving the way for mass-vaccination to start within days. Officials said the jab will be made available ‘from next week’ as Health Secretary Matt Hancock declared the end of the pandemic was now ‘in sight’. Here, MailOnline answers all the questions about the jab, including who will get … Read more
Volunteers who were the first in the world to be given Pfizer’s Covid vaccine — which Britain today approved for mass roll-out — have compared the jab’s side effects to a ‘severe hangover’. One 45-year-old volunteer said the first dose left her suffering side effects similar to the flu jab but that her symptoms were … Read more
Britain’s regulators today approved Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid vaccine, paving the way for mass-vaccination to start within days. Officials said the jab will be made available ‘from next week’ as Health Secretary Matt Hancock declared the end of the pandemic was now ‘in sight’. Here, MailOnline answers all the questions about the jab, including who will get … Read more
Britain expects to start rolling out the Pfizer vaccine just before Christmas if it is declared safe and effective, Matt Hancock said Matt Hancock today claimed Britain is ‘working very closely’ with Pfizer to roll out the drug giant’s breakthrough Covid vaccine from the start of December. The Health Secretary said the UK would be … Read more