SAN FRANCISCO Ten out of the more than four million people who got the first doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine had a severe allergic reaction, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC. In all the cases no one has died and it s been all treatable. Most of them occurred within the first 10 minutes, said Peter Chin-Hong, a UCSF Infectious Disease specialist.
Dr. Peter Chin-Hong says these cases are rare and added, The allergic reaction are likely happening because the fatty bubble that incases the message and that messenger RNA vaccine might be an allergen to some people. But the good news is that it s not a lot of people, said Dr. Chin-Hong.
SAN FRANCISCO Ten out of the more than four million people who got the first doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine had a severe allergic reaction, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC. In all the cases no one has died and it s been all treatable. Most of them occurred within the first 10 minutes, said Peter Chin-Hong, a UCSF Infectious Disease specialist.
Dr. Peter Chin-Hong says these cases are rare and added, The allergic reaction are likely happening because the fatty bubble that incases the message and that messenger RNA vaccine might be an allergen to some people. But the good news is that it s not a lot of people, said Dr. Chin-Hong.
COVID-19 cases are going down in San Francisco, but doctors are not letting their guard down. There is concern as new variants of the virus have been spotted across the globe, causing a deadly spread. Placer County Public Health and the Placer County Sheriff-Coroner Division were recently notified of the death of an individual who tested positive for COVID-19 in late December.
The individual was administered a COVID-19 vaccine several hours before their death on January 21st, 2021. The vaccine was not administered by Placer County Public Health. There are multiple local, state, and federal agencies actively investigating this case; any reports surrounding the cause of death are premature, pending the outcome of the investigation. Our thoughts are with the family of the deceased. VO: The CDC published this graph revealing which of the 10 people who had an allergic reaction to the vaccine had previous allergies.
San Francisco announces goal: Vaccinate all residents by June 30
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Kaiser Dr. Allison Friedenberg, left, pumps her fist after receiving a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shot from nurse Scott Keech at Kaiser San Francisco hospital on Dec. 7, 2020, in San Francisco. Kaiser Permanente gave the first of 10 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to frontline workers at the Kaiser San Francisco hospital.Douglas Zimmerman / SFGATE
The city of San Francisco and its health care providers announced a goal Wednesday to vaccinate all residents by the start of summer. Working with our major health system partners and other community clinics, our goal by June 30 is to get our entire population of 900,000-plus individuals in San Francisco vaccinated for COVID-19, said Roland Pickens, director of San Francisco Health Network, the city s public health care system, at a supervisors’ hearing Wednesday. As you can imagine there will be many twists and turns in the road, but we are feeling confiden
A lot is about a tenth of the whole state s supply, said Dr. Rutherford. So to hold that back while they re doing this investigation is not an inconsequential problem, so that means they ll do this as quickly and expeditiously as possible and, if all is well, they ll release the lot and we can continue to go forward, Dr. Rutherford continued.
Other providers including here in the Bay Area received doses from the same lot.
Alameda County tweeted that local providers did receive doses and that no Alameda County providers have reported unusual vaccine responses to the Public Health Department at this time.